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Photo, Print, Drawing [Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C.]

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About this Item

Title

  • [Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C.]

Names

  • Moebes, Jack, 1911-2002, photographer

Created / Published

  • 1960.

Headings

  • -  F.W. Woolworth Company--1960
  • -  African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960
  • -  Demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960
  • -  Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960
  • -  Racism--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960
  • -  Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960

Headings

  • Gelatin silver prints--1960.
  • Group portraits--1960.

Genre

  • Group portraits--1960
  • Gelatin silver prints--1960

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit African American Odyssey: Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-in. In 1960 four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro strolled into the F. W. Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. They were not served, but they stayed until closing time. The next morning they came with twenty-five more students. Two weeks later similar demonstrations had spread to several cities, within a year similar peaceful demonstrations took place in over a hundred cities North and South. At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, the students formed their own organization, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "Snick"). The students' bravery in the face of verbal and physical abuse led to integration in many stores even before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  • -  United Press International photo. Photographer identified by his family and website, 2025.
  • -  No. RAP020204.
  • -  New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection.
  • -  Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  Exhibited: "Voices of Civil Rights" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005.
  • -  Exhibited: African American Odysseey" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1998.

Medium

  • 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; sheet 18 x 22.8 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Racism [item] [P&P]

Source Collection

  • New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95512251

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-08095 (digital file from original photograph) LC-USZ62-114749 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-08095 (digital file from original photograph) LC-USZ62-114749 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Call Number: NYWTS - SUBJ/GEOG--Racism [item] [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Moebes, Jack, photographer. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C. North Carolina Greensboro, 1960. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/95512251/.

APA citation style:

Moebes, J., photographer. (1960) Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C. North Carolina Greensboro, 1960. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/95512251/.

MLA citation style:

Moebes, Jack, photographer. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at a F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, N.C. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/95512251/>.