Movement Advancement Project. March 2018. “50 Years Ago vs. Today: Piggie Park & the High Stakes of the Masterpiece Cakeshop Case.” https://mapresearch.org/brief/50-years-ago-vs-today-piggie-park-the-high-stakes-of-the-masterpiece-cakeshop-case/.
Fifty years ago, in March 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises. Piggie Park, a small barbeque chain that is still open today, refused to serve African American customers. The owner, a segregationist, claimed that the Civil Rights Act violated his religious freedom. In a decision handed down on March 18, 1968, the Supreme Court disagreed. Read more in this policy brief, authored by MAP for Open to All.
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