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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of picketers from the Congress of Racial Equality outside of an F.W. Woolworth store and a S.H. Kress store demonstrating in support of the North Carolina student sit-ins, in New York, New York, 1960 February 13

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from February 13, 1960, demonstrators with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) picket a F.W. Woolworth store and a S.H. Kress store in support of the North Carolina student sit-ins in New York City, New York.The clip begins with a sign for a F.W. Woolworth store. Demonstrators walk back-and-forth outside of the store carrying signs with the slogans, "Support North Carolina students," "End lunch-counter discrimination," "Don't shop at Woolworth," and "New York CORE Congress of Racial Equality." Among the interracial group of picketers are white women in fur coats. A white policeman stands in front of the door of the store, and later an African American woman leaves the store holding a paper bag and followed by two children.Next more demonstrators picket an S.H. Kress building with picket signs with slogans "Protest against segregation" and "Stop discrimination." A policeman surveys the demonstrators. Another policeman watches as a white woman hands out flyers. There is a break in the clip and then the camera shows a room with people sitting at rows of tables in what may be a library or a legislative chamber.The direct action technique of sitting at a lunch counter until given service was used by a handful of African Americans during the 1950s to protest segregation. In 1958, sit-ins were held by local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Wichita, Kansas and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Both campaigns were eventually successful; in Oklahoma, where the sit-ins...
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  5. Civil Rights Movements
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Direct Action
  8. Discrimination
  9. Discrimination In Public Accommodations
  10. Discrimination In Restaurants
  11. History
  12. New York
  13. New York (State)
  14. North Carolina
  15. Picketing
  16. Police
  17. Race Relations
  18. Segregation
  19. Signs And Signboards
  20. Sit Ins
  21. Southern States
  22. United States

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