Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.FOREIGN RELATIONS: From Segregation to Breakfast
Two Negroes dressed in business suits strolled into a Howard Johnson restaurant near Dover, Del. one evening last week, went up to the counter and ordered two 30¢ glasses of orange juice. As they were handed the juice in containers, wrapped up to take outside, a waitress explained that they could not sit down inside because "colored people are not allowed to eat in here."
At this point one of the Negroes protested to the manager, produced an identity card to introduce himself as Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, Finance Minister of the new 'African nation of Ghana; his companion was...
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