Joan Quigley is an attorney and former business reporter for the Miami Herald. She is the author of The Day the Earth Caved In: An American Mining Tragedy, for which she received the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. She lives with her husband outside of Washington, D.C.
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In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an eighty-six-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that ... SEE MORE