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Edna Griffin biographical information, 1998

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Our Mission is to eliminate discrimination in Iowa. Iowa Civil Rights Commission Communicator Vol. 16, No. 2 Special Edition June 1998 Civil Rights Victory Celebrated! 50th Anniversary: July 7, 1948 -- July 7, 1998 Katz Drug Store Lifts Bars At Luncheonette; 8 Civil Rights Cases Dismissed Jim crow at eating places in Des Moines suffered another fatal stroke on December 3 when Negro patrons began receiving courteous service at the Katz Drug Store luncheonette. Negro and white members of a recently formed "Committee-to-End Jim Crow at Katz" store, which is one of a chain of drug stores with headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., visited the Katz luncheonette, where on recent previous Saturday afternoons, they had sat for "hours" without getting service, were given last Saturday "courteous service--with rapidity," one of the members informed. Groups went at intervals throughout the afternoon and had no trouble [?] served at the luncheonette [illegible] Katz store paid visits [illegible] Nixon Lunch- [illegible] ich was [illegible] three [rest of article missing but continues on next page] Sixteenth street, who filed two damage suits; Arthur Bryant, 945 Twenty[?]-third street; Mrs. Barbara [illegible] liams, 819 Sixteenth street; G[illegible] W. Jasper, and Leonard Hudson [illegible] Tenth street. The white man, Kenneth [illegible] 1418 Pleasant street, in [illegible] contended he was refus[illegible] the store's soda fountain [illegible] was with some Negro[illegible]. Walker, who ha[illegible] for several months [illegible] the Beatrice [illegible] his job following [illegible] the "Committee-to-End Jim Crow at Katz."[?] [illegible] earlier suit filed [illegible] Griffin, a district [illegible for rest of article]
 
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