- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- Sit-in at Woolworth's
- Creator:
- Tutte, Vic
The State Media Company (Columbia, S.C.) - Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : Richland Library
- Date of Original:
- 1960-03-02
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Restaurants
Segregation
Stores, Retail - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 1448 Main Street - Medium:
- images (object genre)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Around 50 college students from Benedict and Allen stage a sit-in, referred to as a "sit-down" in The State newspaper, at the lunch counter at Woolworth's on Main Street. As soon as the students entered the restaurant area of Woolworth's, staff placed "This Section Closed" signs, visible on the counters, and stopped service to those sections. The students, most wearing overcoats and suits with ties, sat at the counter with books, allowed their photographs to be taken, spoke with reporters, and then left as a group to stage a second sit-in at S.H. Kress.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/12148
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright © The State Media Company. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the Walker Local and Family History Center at Richland Library, Columbia, S.C. 29201.
- Original Collection:
- Box 272, Civil Rights||The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Richland Library
- Rights:
-
