New Ideal Diner: then & now
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This images shows two images of the New Ideal Diner and it's building in downtown Aberdeen, Maryland. The first picture shows the diner in its mid-20th century form, the second shows the building as it stood in 2021, and the third shows an old parking sign for the diner that still stood in 2021. The CORE brochure identified the diner ("Ideal") as no longer segregated after negotiations in November 1961.
This file appears in: Route 40 Freedom Ride
Route 40 Freedom Ride
Usually when Americans remember the Freedom Rides, they think of buses that traversed the deep South in the early 1960s to protest racism at bus depots and lunch counters and the like. The Freedom Riders' demonstrated that, in many southern states,…