After our blog post yesterday about students who protested a bar in Chicago after the manager refused entrance to six black students, one Wash U parent whose daughter was on the trip emailed me about a detail that was in the student newspaper but that I didn't mention in my blog post.

One white student traded "baggy jeans" with a black student who was denied entrance. When the white student returned, wearing the "baggy" jeans that were cited as reason for denying the black student entry to the bar, the manager allowed the white student in.

Below is a flyer the mother emailed to me: