- Collection:
- Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
- Title:
- Please Do Not Patronize the Campus Grill
- Publisher:
- New Orleans, La. : Amistad Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1963-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Nashville
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Booklet calling for boycott of The Campus Grill in Nashville, Tennessee. In October 1963, Lorine Chan, a student from Fiji who attended Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee, was refused entrance to a local eatery, The Campus Grill, which was located across the street from the Joint University Center shared by Scarritt, Vanderbilt University, and Peabody College. The restaurant became the focus of a student-led boycott that spread across the campuses of all three schools. This flyer was produced in November after a letter-writing campaign and discussions with the business’s management failed to desegregate the Grill. On November 6, students called for a boycott and began to picket the restaurant. The demonstrations went from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. every day for 2 ½ weeks. However, during the protests a second Campus Grill location opened that maintained the same segregationist policy. When the protests threatened to escalate, Nashville’s mayor negotiated a settlement that called for the desegregation of both Campus Grill locations on January 1, 1964.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:21290
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Physical rights for this document are held by the Amistad Research Center. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to the Amistad Research Center.
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights: