Quiet Defiance at the Lunch Counter

Description: This photo captures a sit-in protest at a segregated lunch counter in New Bern, NC, where African American individuals peacefully read and sat in protest for civil rights in March 1960.

Identifier: NB.2024.13.1236

Creator: Benners, Billy

Contributor: New Bern Historical Society, Gifted by Norman Kellum

Date: 1960

Subject: Sit-in Clark's Drug Store & Kress 5&10

Coverage: New Bern, North Carolina

Type: Still Image

Format: .JPG

Language: English

Rights: © New Bern Historical Society. Some rights reserved. See the Rights page for details.

Item sets: Benners-Kellum Collection

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