"Please do not Patronize the Campus Grill" (page 3)

In October 1963, Lorine Chan, a student from Fiji who attended Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee, was refused entrance to a local eatery, The Campus Grill, which was located across the street from the Joint University Center was shared by Scarritt, Vanderbilt University, and Peabody College. The restaurant became the focus of a student-led boycott that spread across the campuses of all three schools. This flyer was produced in November after a letter-writing campaign and discussions with the business’s management failed to desegregate the Grill. On November 6, students called for a boycott and began to picket the restaurant. The demonstrations went from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. every day for 2 ½ weeks. However, during the protests a second Campus Grill location opened that maintained the same segregationist policy. When the protests threatened to escalate, Nashville’s mayor negotiated a settlement that called for the desegregation of both Campus Grill locations on January 1, 1964.