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Sit In Protest Photos

Browse 43,145 sit in protest photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

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African American students from Saint Augustine College study while participating in a sit-in at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in...

Lunch Counter Protest in North Carolina

Sit-in, Civil Rights, Segregation

African-American students attempt to get served at a lunch counter reserved for white customers in Portsmouth, Virginia, 16th February 1960.

Lunchcounter Protest in Virginia

Civil Rights, Sit-in, 1960-1969

Photograph of Carolyn House, Brenda Officer, Paul Anderson, and other people at an African American Civil Rights sit-in segregation protest at John A...

Civil Rights Sit-In at John A Brown Company

Sit-in, 1960-1969, Human Rights

Photograph of a Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma...

Civil Rights Sit-In

Lunch, Sit-in, Segregation

Demonstrators in wheelchairs picket lobby of the Federal Building as they concluded their first week of a sit-in in offices of HEW department, in...

Disability, Sit-in, Demonstration

Civil Rights sit-in led by Clara Luper to desegregate the lunch counter at Katz Drug Store at Main and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...

Civil Rights Sit-In

Sit-in, Lunch, Demonstration

Segregation protesters Professor John R. Salter, Joan Trunpauer, and Annie Moody remain at a sit-in at a lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi even...

Sit-In Protesters Attacked at Lunch Counter

Sit-in, Lunch, Civil Rights

Sixty Black students marched through the Kansas University campus today in a protest to a Big Eight student's resolution against sit-in...

Kansas University Protest

Civil Rights, 1960-1969, Demonstration

Freedom Riders stage a sit-in at a Montgomery, Alabama, waiting room reserved for White customers, 29th May 1961.

Freedom Riders Staging Sit-In at Bus Terminal

Sit-in, Civil Rights, Freedom Riders - Civil Rights Activists

College students at a sit-in in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Arkansas Students

Sit-in, Racism, Restaurant

An estimated 300 African Americans staged a "stand-in-line" type sit-in on Nashville's five downtown theaters. Some box offices were closed, some...

African Americans Waiting to See The Misfits

Sit-in, Segregation, Archival

Photograph of Barbara Posey, Linda Pogue, Arnetta Carmichael, and other unidentified people at a Civil Rights sit-in protesting segregation at John A...

Civil Rights Sit-In at John A Brown Company

Sit-in, 1960-1969, Segregation

"Little Rock-1963" As recently as November of 1962, Negroes in Little Rock were staging sit-in demonstrations at downtown lunch counters. This was...

Customers Waiting for Service at Counter

Lunch, Sit-in, Demonstration

Dr. John O. Brown led a racially-mixed group to a segregated lunch counter in Grant's Department Store in Miami, said he will ask the store managers...

Racially Mixed Lunch Counter

1960-1969, Sit-in, Segregation

Civil rights protesters during a sit-in at Rockville, Maryland.

Rockville Rights

Sit-in, 1960-1969

Durham county officers began rounding up some 400 Blacks arrested as they staged an anti-segregation sit-down at a chain restaurant. The...

Sit-In Demonstrators Arrested

Sit-in, Civil Rights, Restaurant

Statue of four freshmen who led a sit-in in 1960 on display at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC, on Tuesday, February 8, 2022....

Greensboro - North Carolina, Sit-in, North Carolina - US State

Police officer records the names of African American students who attempted a sit down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta, Georgia.

Police Officer Recording Names of African American Students

Atlanta - Georgia, Civil Rights, 1960-1969

Marchers sit in front of the State Capitol in Montgomery as police watch from the steps at the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights...

Selma To Montgomery March

New York, NY- Members of CORE stage a sit-in demonstration at the White Castle diner in the Bronx late July 13th. During the all-night demonstration,...

Protesters Staging Sit-In at White Castle Restaurant

Jim Crow Laws, White People, Sit-in

Rev. Martin L. King Jr. , sit-in movement; with African American Leaders with wife & young children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

View of disability rights activists as they stage a sit-on outside the South Portal Building , home of the National Department of Health, Education,...

Disability Activists At HEW Building Entrance

Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Sit-in, Social Services

View of disability rights activists, including Joan Johnston and Bruce Oka , during a Congressional hearing on 'Section 504' regulations during the...

Johnston, Oka, & Others During A 'Section 504' Hearing

Sit-in, San Francisco - California

View of disability rights activists as they attend a press conference during the 'Section 504' sit-in at the Federal Office Building, San Francisco,...

Disability Rights Activists At A 'Section 504' Press Conference

View of, fore from left, American Civil Rights and union leader A Philip Randolph , Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee President John Lewis,...

Randolph, Lewis, & The Kings At Montgomery State Capitol

Martin Luther King

Photograph of young men and women and a policeman protesting segregation during a sit-in at John A Brown's Shoe Department, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,...

Civil Rights Sit-In at John A Brown Company

Sit-in, Demonstration, Segregation

Woman unable to find a vacant seat at a F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter, chastises demonstrators participating in a sit down protest against...

Woman Chastising Sit-In Demonstrators

Sit-in, Segregation, Archival

New York, NY- Scholarly behavior included such things as demonstrations, confrontations, and sometimes ended in violence. At Columbia University in...

Students Give Peace Sign At Sit-In

Demonstration, Columbia University, Student

One of more than 35 protesters arrested at a sit-in at the segregated lunch counter in Thalhimer's is led away by police to a patrol wagon. They were...

Arrested Protester Entering Patrol Wagon

Lunch, Segregation, Sit-in

The nine students at Alabama State College , who were expelled for taking part in a lunch counter sit-in at the segregated lunchroom of the...

Expelled Students

Sit-in, Segregation, Lunch

Portrait of the attendees at a conference about a sit-in movement by student leaders and their mentors, including Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ,...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Student

Civil Rights ldr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In handcuffs as he is escorted to courthouse by an officer to attend a hearing on charges of probation...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King, Arrest, Demonstration

White customers look over a railing at black protesters gathered at a desegregation 'sit-in' at Brown's Basement Luncheonette in Oklahoma.

Racial Barriers

Broadcast journalist Evan White, of Channel 7 TV, interviews disability activist Eddie Jauregui and his daughters, during the 'Section 504' sit-in at...

White Interviews Jauregui At The 'Section 504' Sit-In

View of disability rights activists, including Judy Heumann , during the 'Section 504' sit-in at the Federal Office Building, San Francisco,...

'Section 504' Sit-In At The SF Federal Office Building

Shirt-sleeved employee a a local lunch counter admitted whites today but barred Blacks who staged sit-in demonstrations at five major downtown eating...

Staged Sit-Ins to End Segregation

Sit-in, Lunch, 1960-1969

Photograph of Barbara Posey and Dwayne Crosby during a sit-in at John A Brown Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, late 1950s or early 1960s.

Civil Rights Sit-In at John A Brown Company

And Core members sit in before the Convention Hall prior to the opening of the Democratic Convention.

People Sitting on Boardwalk with Protest Signs

Sit-in, Democratic National Convention

Members and supporters of the American Friends Service Committee hold a "meeting of worship" sit-in outside the White House as a delegation continues...

Quakers Demonstrating Outside the White House

Vietnam War, Henry Kissinger

And Core members sit in before the Convention Hall prior to the opening of the Democratic Convention.

People Sitting with Protest Signs

Sit-in, Democratic National Convention

New York, New York- Students supporting the Columbia University sit-in and counter-demonstrating teachers and students engage in a short-lived...

Students and Professors in a Brawl

Columbia University, Chaos, Civil Rights

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee leader Stokely Carmichael points to the ground and tells African American student marchers to sit in the...

Political Activist Stokely Carmichael During Protest in Alabama

Student, Stokely Carmichael, Black Power Movement

Marshall, Texas: African-American students were arrested April 2 when they picketed the drug store where most of the "sit-ins" were arrested April 1....

Students Picketing Against Segregation

Group of anti-segregation protesters kneels in prayer outside the Cambridge courthouse after a rally at the Bethel AME Church. The previous month in...

Group Kneeling in Prayer

James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, links arms with other demonstrators as they sit in front of the New York City...

Sit-in, Civil Rights

Waitress brings a cup of coffee to the reverend Theodore Roosevelt Thompson staging a one-man sit-in at a Dallas lunch counter.

Waitress Serving Man at Lunchcounter Sit-In

Police officers arrest Morgan State College student Ken Brown during a sit-in at an Annapolis restaurant.

Sit-In Protester Arrested by Police Officers

Civil Rights, Demonstration, Sit-in

Mrs. Gloria Richardson, Chairman of the Cambridge Non-Violent Action Committee watches as sit-in demonstrators Johnny Weeks James Lewis and Dwight...

Sit-In Demonstrators Dragged From Restaurant

Segregation, Gloria Richardson, Arrest

Women at a roped-off lunch counter stage a sit down to protest segregation in Nashville, Tennessee.

Women Participating in Sit-in Protest

Lunch, Sit-in, Demonstration

An African-American student sits at a lunch counter reserved for white customers during a sit-in to protest segregation. Packages of napkins have...

African American Man Staging Lunch Counter Sit-in

Sit-in, Jim Crow Laws, Segregation

Robert Fehsenfeldt, owner of the Dizzyland Restaurant, smashes an egg in a white demonstrator's face here July 8 during an eleven person, fifteen...

Restaurant Owner Smashes Egg In Protester's Face

Students for a Democratic Society leader Mario Savio speaks to demonstrators at a sit-in at U.C. Berkeley.

Mario Savio Addresses Berkeley Students

1960-1969, UC Berkeley

Police in Marshall, Texas arrest two African-American students from Wiley College after they staged a sit down protest in a drug store.

African American Students Being Arrested at Protest

Demonstration, Sit-in, Civil Rights

Woman holding a child lashes out at a man during a desegregation protest at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. | Location:...

Woman Kicks Man at Desegregation Protest

Desegregation, Demonstration, Civil Rights

Students staging a sit-in to protest racism in Selma, Alabama.

Students staging a sit-in to protest rac

Demonstration, USA, Student

Conference about a sit-in movement by student leaders from affected communities.

A conference about a sit-in movement by

Sit-in, 1960-1969

Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Talking to a college group of amused male & female student sit-in organizers incl. Julian Bond...

Martin Luther King Jr. Meets With Student Organizers

Student, Martin Luther King, Civil Rights

Civil Rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Talking w. A college group of male & female student sit-in organizers incl. Julian Bond ,...

Martin Luther King Jr. Meets With Student Organizers

Martin Luther King, Student, Atlanta - Georgia

White customers watch as black customers protest desegregation with a 'sit-in' at Brown's Basement Luncheonette in Oklahoma.

African-American protesters congregate at Brown's Basement Luncheonette during a sit-in while Caucasian police officers observe, Oklahoma.

Sit-In At Brown's

USA, Police Force, Sit-in

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