On the record
Lunch rooms either don't serve niggers or serve them at some dirty and ill-attended hole in the wall.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “Lunch rooms either don't serve niggers or serve them at some dirty and ill-attended hole in the wall.”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois addresses the segregation and poor treatment of Black individuals in dining establishments.
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