Africans Are Served - and So Are Americans


This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
Africans Are Served - and So Are Americans

These are two pages from a Life article in December 1961. The pages describe the negotiations involving CORE and business owners to avoid a Freedom Ride, which led to some Route 40 restaurants to change ending their segregated practices. However, the article erred when it ended with: "No African or U.S. Negro need again be rebuffed- at least on Route 40." In fact, not all the restaurants had changed their policies and some had apparently gone back on their previous agreement to do so, leading to the Route 40 Freedom Ride on December 16, 1961.


This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride