Demonstrators Sit-in and Block traffic on Franklin Street in Downtown Chapel Hill; They Were Arrested for Blocking Traffic

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A digital image of black and white demonstrators staging a sit-in and stopping traffic on Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill. They were later arrested for blocking traffic.

Catalog date

February 8, 1964; scanned 2010

Recorded subjects

African American; Civil Rights; Photography; U.S. History, 1961-1969

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