• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s a sit in, protesting laws that said establishments could refuse to serve black people (or serve them horribly,)

    This was the form civil disobedience took, where they would go, make a scene, get arrested, and then argue in court that the law was unjust.