What Do These 9 Facts About The Restaurant Industry Have To Do With Civil Rights?
During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were a major site of the many sit-ins challenging the system of official segregation that denied patrons of color their human dignity. Today, fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act on July 2nd, 1964, we are fighting a system of de facto racial and gender segregation to reclaim dignity for workers of color throughout the restaurant industry.
