Barr v. City of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Like Bouie v. City of Columbia, post, p. 347, this case involves a “sit-in” demonstration in Columbia, South Carolina, this one at the Taylor Street Pharmacy. Negroes and whites alike are invited to come and buy goods in all the store’s departments, but the lunch counter, while it sells food to Negroes to take out, has a policy of refusing to let them sit there and eat. Petitioners, five Negro college students, entered the store and after some of them had made purchases in the front part proceeded to the lunch counter at the rear, where they sat down and waited for service. The store manager…
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