On Feb 9, 1960, black students protested with a sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. This photograph was taken during the first hour of the sit-ins. Seen here: the store manager has closed the counter and everyone is waiting to see what happens. Police gave the sit-ins protection so there were no incidents. On July 3rd, the counters at Woolworth's were reopened to everyone. Charlotte, North Carolina
CIVIL RIGHTS PROTESTS Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. under arrest by Atlanta Police Captain R.E. Little, left rear, passes through a picket line in front of a downtown department store on Oct. 9, 1960. with King is another demonstration leader, Lonnie King and an unidentified woman. The integration leader was among the 48 African-Americans arrested following demonstrations at several department and variety stores protesting lunch counter segregation.
THE LONG WAIT Black college student Dorothy Bell, 19, of Birmingham, Ala., waits in a downtown Birmingham lunch counter for service that never came, April 4, 1963. She was arrested with 20 others in sit-in attempts.
10 Feb 1960, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA --- African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Raleigh, North Carolina. Two waitresses pointedly ignore them from the other side of the counter.
Protest Segregation African-Americans picket in front of the F.W. Woolworth store in protest against the chain's policy of segregating its lunch counters in the south, in Atlantic City, N.J, March 19, 1960.
Anti-Integration Georgia Woolworth's customers closed its main downtown store in Atlanta on Oct. 20, 1960, after white youth identified as Harold Sprayberry, 21, of Atlanta, walked along lunch counter area spraying insect repellent above heads of nearly 100 African Americans demonstrating at a sit-in for three hours. Sprayberry was charged with inciting a riot although the spectators proceeded to street without incident. About an hour later the store was re-opened.
02 Feb 1960, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA --- Four African American college students sit in protest at a whites-only lunch counter during the second day of peaceful protest at a Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. From left: Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith, and Clarence Henderson.
PORTSMOUTH LUNCH COUNTER SITDOWN INTEGRATION RACIAL DESEGREGATION PUBLIC PLACES CIVIL RIGHTS BLACK STUDENTS SITTING LUNCH COUNTER WHITE STUDENT EATING PROTEST DEMONSTRATION SITDOWN STRIKE 1960
USA CIVIL RIGHTS Victor Cobb (right), the manager of a dining room in Atlanta's Trailways Bus Terminal, asks African American sitdown demonstrators to leave his lunch counter on March 16, 1960. The demonstrators stared at him in silence and refused to leave and were then arrested by the officer behind.
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African-Americans on a picket line, protesting their treatment at a lunch counter. Photograph by Howard Sochurek. Petersburg, Virginia, USA, 1960.
LUNCH COUNTER PROTEST Bertha Gilbert, 22, is led away by police after she tried to enter a segregated lunch counter in Nashville, Tenn., on May 6, 1964. She is arrested on a disorderly conduct charge.
The 1963 photograph depicts students enduring taunts, mustard, and ketchup as they sat-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi.
Fannie Lou Hamer, in coat and scarf, helped establish Freedom Farm Cooperative in 1969 with the goal of providing food and some economic independence to local people.