"Little Rock-1963" As recently as November of 1962, Negroes in Little Rock were staging sit-in demonstrations at downtown lunch counters. This was...
African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in...
Segregation protesters Professor John R. Salter, Joan Trunpauer, and Annie Moody remain at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi even...
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,...
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...
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.
Teen was responsible for putting money in parking meters for Reverend Ashton Jones of Los Angeles and Dallas resident Reverend Theodore Roosevelt...
Woman unable to find a vacant seat at a F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter, chastises demonstrators participating in a sit down protest at the counter.
Photograph of Carolyn House, Brenda Officer, Paul Anderson, and other people at an African American Civil Rights sit-in segregation protest at John A...
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...
An African-American student sits at a lunch counter reserved for white customers during a sit-in to protest segregation. Packages of napkins have...
African-American students attempt to get served at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Portsmouth, Virginia, 16th February 1960.
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...
Jackson, Mississippi: Three Negro sit-ins sit peacefully at a Jackson, Mississippi lunch counter minutes before violence erupted. Memphis Norman was...
Caucasian onlookers peer over a railing while watching African-American protesters during their sit-in at Brown's Basement Luncheonette, Oklahoma.
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,...
Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Talking w. A college group of male & female student sit-in organizers incl. Julian Bond ,...
Photograph of A Willie James, Billye Reid and others holding signs reading 'Freedom Now' during a sit-in at Capitol Hill, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...
Police officer records the names of African American students who attempted a sit down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta, Georgia.
New York, NY- Scholarly behavior included such things as demonstrations, confrontations, and sometimes ended in violence. At Columbia University in...
Freedom Riders stage a sit-in at a Montgomery, Alabama, waiting room reserved for White customers, 29th May 1961.
Caucasian policeman speaks with African-American protesters during a sit-in at Brown's Basement Luncheonette, Oklahoma.
Sixty Black students marched through the Kansas University campus today in a protest to a Big Eight student's resolution against sit-in...
Helena, Ark.: About 26 Negroes were arrested here after staging sit-in demonstrations at local drug store and restaurant. Police broke up 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....
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...
Sit-in demonstrators, Mrs. J.S. Payton Rowe, Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, Dr. Robert Hayling, and Mr....
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.
African-American protesters congregate at Brown's Basement Luncheonette during a sit-in while Caucasian police officers observe, Oklahoma.
Police squad wedged through a line of 2,500 anti-draft pickets to arrest this group staging a sit-in at the entrance to the Oakland Induction center....
Joseph McNeil answering questions about the famous Woolworth sit-in from 1960 during a conversation with young black students at his home in...
Student wearing hippie attire stands with a Sheriff's deputy and flashes a peace sign hand gesture during an anti Vietnam War student sit-in protest...
Group of students wearing hippie attire march at night carrying signs during an anti Vietnam War student sit-in protest at North Carolina State...
Nearly one thousand University of California students protest restrictions on political activities on the Berkeley campus through a sit-in...
San Francisco, California- Demonstrating CORE pickets sit in front of turnstile at the Cow palace preventing delegates from leaving after the end of...
New York, New York- Students supporting the Columbia University sit-in and counter-demonstrating teachers and students engage in a short-lived...
Sacramento, CA- Actor Marlon Brando talks to members of the Congress of Racial Equality as he arrives to help in their sit-in at the State Capitol 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...
Police officers arrest Morgan State College student Ken Brown during a sit-in at an Annapolis restaurant.
Mrs. Gloria Richardson, Chairman of the Cambridge Non-Violent Action Committee watches as sit-in demonstrators Johnny Weeks James Lewis and Dwight...
Washington, DC: Sit-in. Four university students began a sit-in in the outer office of Attorney General Robert Kennedy here today and said they would...
Civil Rights ldr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Escorted by police officers in courthouse as he is taken into a hearing on a charge of probation...
Conference about a sit-in movement by student leaders from affected communities, Raliegh, North Carolina, April 1960.
White customers watch as black customers protest desegregation with a 'sit-in' at Brown's Basement Luncheonette in Oklahoma.
Anti-nuclear protestors stage a sit-in on roadway at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility, June 30, 1979 in San Luis Obispo, California.
Shirt-sleeved employee a a local lunch counter admitted whites today but barred Blacks who staged sit-in demonstrations at five major downtown eating...
Protesters at a sit-in during 'The Longest Walk' demonstration to protest 11 anti-Indian bills that threatened Indian Treaties rights, Washington DC,...
Green and a salmon-colored stool from the F. W. Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of...
Group of spectators sit in front of a billboard as they watch the Selma to Montgomery March passes by, Alabama, late March 1965.
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,...
Photograph of Carolyn House, Brenda Officer, Paul Anderson, and other people at a Civil Rights sit-in segregation protest at John A Brown Company,...
Photograph of Barbara Posey, Linda Pogue, Arnetta Carmichael, and other unidentified people at a Civil Rights sit-in protesting segregation at John A...
Male and female student, both wearing hippie attire, sit together on steps during an anti Vietnam War student sit-in protest at North Carolina State...
Close-up of sign on booth for a campus republication group asking for donations to "Fight radicals on campus", during the response to an anti Vietnam...