The Quorum (coffee house)

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Quorum" coffee house – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "The Quorum" coffee house – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Quorum was a coffee house in New Orleans, known as a model for multicultural exchange in the politically and racially charged atmosphere of the 1960s.^[1] It became a frequent target of segregationist harassment in New Orleans after it opened to persons from all racial backgrounds in 1963.^[2] In 1964, police raided The Quorum and arrested 73 people with charges such as "playing guitars out of tune." Many musicians, poets and artists spent time at The Quorum including Jerry Jeff Walker.