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Ghana Diplomat Refused Service on U.S. Visit
Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, the finance minister of the new African nation of Ghana, visited the United States on official business in October 1957. On October 9, Gbedemah dined with labor arbitrator Theodore Kheel and Roy Wilkins at the Waldorf Astoria. The next day he was refused service at a Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Dover, Delaware, en route from New York to Washington, D.C. President Eisenhower later invited Gbedemah to breakfast at the White House to make amends. This incident was one of many involving dark-skinned diplomats and Jim Crow. |