{"id":108551,"date":"2021-04-22T14:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T14:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/archive\/workingclasshistory-on-this-day-22-april-1944\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:50:47","slug":"workingclasshistory-on-this-day-22-april-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/workingclasshistory-on-this-day-22-april-1944\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-108551 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/workingclasshistory-on-this-day-22-april-1944\/attachment\/108552\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/img.united-tuesday.org\/u2dy\/images\/2021\/04\/fa4b142d789245de7e039bfa576c5a6d2a5e974f.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-image-108552\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img.united-tuesday.org\/u2dy\/images\/2021\/04\/fa4b142d789245de7e039bfa576c5a6d2a5e974f.jpg 911w, https:\/\/img.united-tuesday.org\/u2dy\/images\/2021\/04\/fa4b142d789245de7e039bfa576c5a6d2a5e974f-768x769.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/workingclasshistory.tumblr.com\/post\/649175370425319424\/on-this-day-22-april-1944-200-young-black\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">workingclasshistory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On this day, 22 April 1944, 200 young Black people, mostly students at Howard University, held a sit-in demonstration at Thompson\u2019s, a segregated restaurant in Washington DC \u2013 where Jim Crow laws were not in effect but segregation by custom existed. After effectively slashing the number of paying customers, the restaurant was ordered by its headquarters to begin serving Black customers. <br \/>\nThe University, in fear of losing federal grants, subsequently directed its students to cease direct action and Thompson\u2019s promptly restored segregation. <br \/>\nOne of the key organisers of the action was Pauli Murray, pictured, a young student and activist, who identified as part male and part female, and whose romantic relationships were with women. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/workingclasshistory\/photos\/a.296224173896073\/1700242993494177\/?type=3\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/workingclasshistory\/photos\/a.296224173896073\/1700242993494177\/?type=3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>PAULI MURRAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>workingclasshistory: On this day, 22 April 1944, 200 young Black people, mostly students at Howard University, held a sit-in demonstration at Thompson\u2019s, a segregated restaurant in Washington DC \u2013 where Jim Crow laws were not in effect but segregation by custom existed. After effectively slashing the number of paying customers, the restaurant was ordered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1406,1425,1338,1426],"class_list":["post-108551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-archive","tag-1406","tag-april","tag-archive","tag-personalities","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/united-tuesday.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}