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This article describes an African American protest against the repeal of a theater license ordinance in Topeka, Kansas. The group argued that an 1870 Kansas statute mandated that businesses licensed by a municipality "could make no discrimination among patrons because of race or color." The group claimed the repeal of the theater license would allow theaters to racially discriminate.
Creator: Topeka Journal
Date: September 26, 1944
Item Number: 216974
Call Number: Newspaper Clippings, Vol. 7, Negroes, K 326
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 216974
Business and Industry - Retail - Theatres
Collections - Library
Date - 1940s - 1944
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Civil rights - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Newspaper - clipping
People - African Americans
People - African Americans - Discrimination
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Newspapers - Clippings
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