African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in...
Photograph of Carolyn House, Brenda Officer, Paul Anderson, and other people at an African American Civil Rights sit-in segregation protest at John A...
Photograph of a Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma...
Segregation protesters Professor John R. Salter, Joan Trunpauer, and Annie Moody remain at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi even...
Freedom Riders stage a sit-in at a Montgomery, Alabama, waiting room reserved for White customers, 29th May 1961.
African-American students attempt to get served at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Portsmouth, Virginia, 16th February 1960.
Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...
"Little Rock-1963" As recently as November of 1962, Negroes in Little Rock were staging sit-in demonstrations at downtown lunch counters. This was...
Sixty Black students marched through the Kansas University campus today in a protest to a Big Eight student's resolution against sit-in...
An estimated 300 African Americans staged a "stand-in-line" type sit-in on Nashville's five downtown theaters. Some box offices were closed, some...
Demonstrators in wheelchairs picket lobby of the Federal Building as they concluded their first week of a sit-in in offices of HEW department, in...
Dr. John O. Brown led a racially-mixed group to a segregated lunch counter in Grant's Department Store in Miami, said he will ask the store managers...
Photograph of Barbara Posey, Linda Pogue, Arnetta Carmichael, and other unidentified people at a Civil Rights sit-in protesting segregation at John A...
Woman unable to find a vacant seat at a F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter, chastises demonstrators participating in a sit down protest against...
Police officer records the names of African American students who attempted a sit down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta, Georgia.
The nine students at Alabama State College , who were expelled for taking part in a lunch counter sit-in at the segregated lunchroom of the...
Durham county officers began rounding up some 400 Blacks arrested as they staged an anti-segregation sit-down at a chain restaurant. The...
Statue of four freshmen who led a sit-in in 1960 on display at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022....
New York, NY- Members of CORE stage a sit-in demonstration at the White Castle diner in the Bronx late July 13th. During the all-night demonstration,...
African-American protesters congregate at Brown's Basement Luncheonette during a sit-in while Caucasian police officers observe, Oklahoma.
View of disability rights activists, including Joan Johnston and Bruce Oka , during a Congressional hearing on 'Section 504' regulations during the...
View of disability rights activists as they attend a press conference during the 'Section 504' sit-in at the Federal Office Building, San Francisco,...
View of, fore from left, American Civil Rights and union leader A Philip Randolph , Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee President John Lewis,...
Photograph of young men and women and a policeman protesting segregation during a sit-in at John A Brown's Shoe Department, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...
And Core members sit in before the Convention Hall prior to the opening of the Democratic Convention.
And Core members sit in before the Convention Hall prior to the opening of the Democratic Convention.
New York, NY- Scholarly behavior included such things as demonstrations, confrontations, and sometimes ended in violence. At Columbia University in...
Berkeley, CA- A University of California demonstrator plays guitar, while two other demonstrators curl up together for a "cat-nap." Some 1,000...
One of more than 35 protesters arrested at a sit-in at the segregated lunch counter in Thalhimer's is led away by police to a patrol wagon. They were...
An African-American student sits at a lunch counter reserved for white customers during a sit-in to protest segregation. Packages of napkins have...
Civil Rights ldr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In handcuffs as he is escorted to courthouse by an officer to attend a hearing on charges of probation...
White customers look over a railing at black protesters gathered at a desegregation 'sit-in' at Brown's Basement Luncheonette in Oklahoma.
Caucasian policeman speaks with African-American protesters during a sit-in at Brown's Basement Luncheonette, Oklahoma.
View of disability rights activists as they stage a sit-on outside the South Portal Building , home of the National Department of Health, Education,...
Broadcast journalist Evan White, of Channel 7 TV, interviews disability activist Eddie Jauregui and his daughters, during the 'Section 504' sit-in at...
View of disability rights activists, including Judy Heumann , during the 'Section 504' sit-in at the Federal Office Building, San Francisco,...
Shirt-sleeved employee a a local lunch counter admitted whites today but barred Blacks who staged sit-in demonstrations at five major downtown eating...
Photograph of A Willie James, Billye Reid and others holding signs reading 'Freedom Now' during a sit-in at Capitol Hill, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...
Photograph of Barbara Posey and Dwayne Crosby during a sit-in at John A Brown Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, late 1950s or early 1960s.
Helena, Ark.: About 26 Negroes were arrested here after staging sit-in demonstrations at local drug store and restaurant. Police broke up the...
Jackson, Mississippi: Three Negro sit-ins sit peacefully at a Jackson, Mississippi lunch counter minutes before violence erupted. Memphis Norman was...
Members and supporters of the American Friends Service Committee hold a "meeting of worship" sit-in outside the White House as a delegation continues...
New York, New York- Students supporting the Columbia University sit-in and counter-demonstrating teachers and students engage in a short-lived...
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael points to the ground and tells African American student marchers to sit in the...
Marshall, Texas: African-American students were arrested April 2 when they picketed the drug store where most of the "sit-ins" were arrested April 1....
Group of anti-segregation protesters kneels in prayer outside the Cambridge courthouse after a rally at the Bethel AME Church. The previous month in...
James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, links arms with other demonstrators as they sit in front of the New York City...
Waitress brings a cup of coffee to the reverend Theodore Roosevelt Thompson staging a one-man sit-in at a Dallas lunch counter.
Robert Fehsenfeldt, owner of the Dizzyland Restaurant, smashes an egg in a white demonstrator's face here July 8 during an eleven person, fifteen...
Police in Marshall, Texas arrest two African-American students from Wiley College after they staged a sit down protest in a drug store.
Woman holding a child lashes out at a man during a desegregation protest at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Location:...
Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Talking to a college group of amused male & female student sit-in organizers incl. Julian Bond...
Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Talking w. A college group of male & female student sit-in organizers incl. Julian Bond ,...
White customers watch as black customers protest desegregation with a 'sit-in' at Brown's Basement Luncheonette in Oklahoma.
