Students Assemble outside Steak and Shake | University of Illinois Archives
Title:
Students Assemble outside Steak and Shake
Date:
June 6, 1946
Description:
Students assemble outside a Champaign County Steak and Shake to protest its discriminatory serving practices. The student-community interracial committee helped plan and peacefully picket the establishment. Signs make comment on Illini track-star Herb McKenley earning national acclaim but would still be denied a seat due to being Black.
Original Print can be found in RS 15/16/21, Box 4, S-CIC Restaurants (campus) , clippings and photographs scrapbook, 1946
Phys. Desc:
8 cm W x 13.5 cm H
ID:
0010744
Repository:
University of Illinois Archives
Found in:
15/16/21 Harry M. Tiebout Papers, 1941-82
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