Sentence examples for they were refused service from inspiring English sources

They were refused service and eventually asked to leave.

Additionally, she had invited African Americans to her white church and attempted to have lunch with two African American teachers at a segregated lunchroom, though they were refused service.

He also worked at the Burger King unit of Diageo and revamped the Advantica Restaurant Group, owners of the Denny's chain, in 1997 after Denny's was sued by a group of black customers who said they were refused service because of their race.

Although they were refused service at both lunch counters, the reactions varied significantly.

In his song "The Ferguson Brothers Killing," Guthrie condemned the 1946 police killing of two unarmed black brothers, Charles and Alfonso Ferguson, in Freeport, Long Island after they were refused service in a bus terminal cafe.

Invariably, they are refused service.

The two guys were refused service around 7 p.m. because they were "heavily intoxicated," according to a police report obtained by the paper, and then "became agitated and aggressive," refusing to leave despite multiple requests that they hit the road. .

They then sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter and placed an order but were refused service.

The most notorious incident involved six black Secret Service agents who were refused service for nearly an hour at a Denny's in Annapolis, Md. They were in that state to provide security during a visit by President Clinton.

My employees were refused service at restaurants or shunned, or kicked out of a motel".

In this same market town, his mother and six female friends were refused service in an Indian restaurant.