White City Roller Rink desegregated in Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Daily News As published in the Chicago Daily News, sister publication of the Chicago Sun-Times: On Feb. 1, 1960, Black activists staged the first sit-in at a lunch counter to protest racial segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. These kinds of protests would become staples of civil disobedience used throughout the civil rights movement. While discrimination at Chicago lunch counters hadn’t been legal since 1885, not every business followed Illinois’ civil rights law. In 1946, a group of Black and white activists, many of them members of the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality...
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