On March 17, 1934, Howard University students protested at the U.S. Capitol against Jim Crow at the House and Senate public restaurants. The demonstration occurred after the barring of Morris Lewis, an aide to the only black U.S. representative Oscar DePriest, from the Public House restaurant in January and the subsequent forcible removal of Mabel […]

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