- Collection:
- Voices of Civil Rights
- Title:
- Protest by ministers
- Date of Original:
- 1960-04-04
- Subject:
- Congress of Racial Equality
Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York
Picketing--New York (State)--New York
Signs and signboards--New York (State)--New York
Clergy--New York (State)--New York
Christians--Political activity
Religion and politics
F.W. Woolworth Company
Segregation--Southern States
Restaurants--Southern States
Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York
Discrimination in restaurants--Southern States
Picketing--New York (State)--New York - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Picket line in front of F.W. Woolworth store in New York City, April 14, 1960, in protest of the store's lunch counter segregation at southern branches in its chain. The pickets, majority of whom are ministers, were sponsored by church committee on Woolworth policies in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-08096 (digital file from original photograph)
LC-USZ62-115078 (b&w film copy neg.) - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08096
- Rights Holder:
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html)
- Extent:
- 1 photographic prin
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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