Fred Blackwell: Woolworths Lunch Counter Sit-In Photograph

The Images, Cartoons, and Other Visual Sources That Shaped America
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Fred Blackwell: Woolworths Lunch Counter Sit-In Photograph
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About the Artist
Document Image
Context
Explanation and Analysis of the Document
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Abstract

This photograph was initially published in the Jackson Daily News in May 1963. The photo documents part of a sit-in conducted at the Woolworths lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 28, 1963, to protest the segregation of that lunch counter. The lunch counter at Woolworths in Jackson, as was the case throughout the South during the Jim Crow era, denied service to Black customers. The sit-in was part of growing grassroots movement that advocated nonviolent protests to challenge the legalized segregation of the American South.

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