Question
The Kennedy administration was completely embarrassed after William Fitzjohn, Sierra Leone’s ambassador, was denied service at one of these institutions in Hagerstown, Maryland. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these institutions, one of which had earlier denied service to Komla Gbedemah, Ghana’s finance minister. An activist who partly took a stage name from one of these institutions co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera.
ANSWER: Howard Johnson’s [or HoJo’s; prompt on hotels or restaurants] (The activist is Marsha P. Johnson.)
[10m] Prior to organizing a “sip-in” at Julius’ bar in 1966, members of this organization had previously tried at Howard Johnson’s, but they were actually served. Harry Hay founded this early gay activist group in the 1940s.
ANSWER: Mattachine Society
[10e] In 1962, Howard Johnson’s released a statement against segregation with the support of CORE and this Baltimore-based group, whose Legal Defense and Educational Fund was led by Thurgood Marshall.
ANSWER: NAACP [or National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]
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