#OtD 22 Apr 1944 200 Black people, mostly @HowardU students, held a sit-in at a segregated restaurant in Washington DC. The disruption forced HQ to order the branch to start serving Black customers. A key organiser was LGBT+ Pauli Murray (pictured) https://t.co/UJnXZGJ4rl https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9444/thompson's-cafeteria-sit-in?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon