State patrol arrest protester

Collection:: African American History
Title:: State patrol arrest protester
Creator:: Forrest, J. Thomas
Contributor to Resource:: Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)
Date of Original:: 1960/1969
Subject:: African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Edenton
North Carolina. State Highway Patrol
Protest movements--North Carolina--Edenton
Location:: United States, North Carolina, 35.50069, -80.00032
Medium:: photographs
Type:: StillImage
Format:: image/jpeg
Description:: N.C. State Patrolmen arrested about 50 persons after they staged a sit-in in the principal's office of John A. Holmes High School and in the office of the superintendent of Chowan-Edenton Schools in the courthouse. Sheriff Troy Toppin said that 50 black protesters were arrested about 7 p.m. last evening, when they refused to leave the offices.
Metadata URL:: https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/15144
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: Copyright held by East Carolina University. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes.
Contributing Institution:: J.Y. Joyner Library
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