On 8 May 1942, a group of Black and white young people staged a sit-in at the segregated Jack Spratt Coffee House in Chicago – the first sit-in of the civil rights movement. The restaurant called police but they refused to remove the occupiers as they had not broken any laws. The restaurant then dropped its discriminatory policy. The occupation was organised by the Congress of Racial Equality which had been set up the previous year. This is an archive of content about the civil rights movement: https://libcom.org/civil-right-movement.
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