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Our luncheon today was held in the Mayflower Hotel. I reminded folks that in 1949 the first Black SCOTUS clerk Wm T Coleman (later a part of the Brown braintrust, @NAACP_LDF Bd chair, law firm partner & Transportation Secy) was invited to attend an impromptu lunch w/other clerks.
Coleman was late so his co-clerk & friend Elliot Richardson (later AG) suggested that since they were late they should just go to Union Station & get lunch, which they did. Only later did Coleman learn that Richardson called & learned that the Mayflower did not serve Blacks.
Richardson told their Justice Felix Frankfurter about the Mayflower’s shameful policy. Frankfurter years later referred to the indignity of segregation to his clerk in D.C. in the conference w/the justices deliberating the Brown decision.
