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Florida Memory, Division of Library & Information Services

Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida

Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter: Tallahassee, Florida (1960)

Image number: RC03284

Included in the photograph are Policeman Joe Gregory and City Manager Arvah Hopkins. Photographed on March 13, 1960.

Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter: Tallahassee, Florida (1960)

Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter: Tallahassee, Florida (1960)

Image number: RC03283

At the far right is reporter George Thurston. March 13, 1960.

Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter: Tallahassee, Florida (1960)

Sit-in defendants: Tallahassee, Florida (1960)

Image number: RC17750

Three university students being tried for unlawful assembly in a March 12 lunch counter sit-in demonstration were photographed on a street outside city hall in Tallahassee during a recess called because of a bomb threat. They are (L-R): Vecient Moore of Florida A. & M. University, John J. Poland student at all-white Florida State University, and Robert F. Kemp of Florida A. & M. University.

May 6, 1960.

Sit-in defendants: Tallahassee, Florida (1960)

Integration at Fulford Elementary School: Miami, Florida (1960)

Image number: PR05160

Mrs. Pearson picks up her youngest daughter from school. The paper sack on the girls head was to keep her dry from rain.

Photographed September 6, 1960.

Integration at Fulford Elementary School: Miami, Florida (1960)

Civil rights demonstration in front of segregated theater: Tallahassee, Florida (1963)

Image number: RC11500

Included in the photograph are Patricia Stephens Due in the black dress and John Due's head above officer's cap.

Civil rights demonstration in front of segregated theater: Tallahassee, Florida (1963)

Negro students filling circuit court room: Tallahassee, Florida (1963)

Image number: RC07120

Photographed here is a part of the 220 Negro students who more than filled a circuit court room to face charges of contempt for demonstrating against segregated movie theaters. Circuit Judge Ben Willis ordered the demonstrations halted pending a hearing but the students, from FAMU, ignored the order and picketed one of the two white patronage theaters. Police arrested a total of 257. May 31, 1963.

Negro students filling circuit court room: Tallahassee, Florida (1963)

Confrontation between black demonstrators and segregationists at a "white only" beach: Saint Augustine, Florida (1964)

Image number: RC12422

June 25, 1964.

Confrontation between black demonstrators and segregationists at a "white only" beach: Saint Augustine, Florida (1964)

Segregationists and black demonstrators at a "white only" beach: Saint Augustine, Florida (1964)

Image number: RC17740

June 25, 1964

Segregationists and black demonstrators at a "white only" beach: Saint Augustine, Florida (1964)

Segregationists trying to prevent blacks from swimming at a "White only" beach: Saint Augustine: Florida (1964)

Image number: RC12407

June 25, 1964.

Segregationists trying to prevent blacks from swimming at a "White only" beach (1964)

Segregationists trying to prevent blacks from swimming at a "White only" beach: Saint Augustine: Florida (1964)

Image number: RC17739

June 25, 1964.

Segregationists trying to prevent blacks from swimming at a "White only" beach: Saint Augustine: Florida (1964)

Clergymen choose jail rather than pay fines: Tallahassee, Florida (1964)

Image number: RC17743

These white and Negro clergymen elected to go to jail on a 60-day sentence rather than pay a $500 fine each. The ministers were arrested in 1961 when they refused to obey an order to end a sit-in at the airport restaurant. They have been free on a $1,000 bond.

From L-R are Reverend John W. Collier from Newark, New Jersey; Reverend A. McArven Warner from New York City; Rabbi Martin Freedman from Paterson, New Jersey; Reverend Arthur L. Hardge from New Britain, Connecticut; Rabbi Israel Dressner from Springfield, New Jersey; Reverend Robert J. Stone from New York City; Dr. Robert McAfee Brown from Stanford, California; and Reverend Petty D. McKinney from Nyack, New Jersey.

August 3, 1964.

Clergymen choose jail rather than pay fines: Tallahassee, Florida (1964)

Jailed minister reads support message: Tallahassee, Florida (1964)

Image number: RC10679

Rabbi Israel Dresner, of Springfield, New Jersey, one of the nine clergymen jailed on a 60-day sentence rather than pay fines of $500 each, reads messages of support for their integration activities. The group was arrested in 1961 for a restaurant sit-in demonstration and have been free on $1,000 bonds. All but one of the white and Negro ministers are wearing regulation city prison clothing.

Standing to the right from Rabbi Dresner are Reverend Petty D. McKinney from Nyack, New York; Reverend A. McArven Warner (only partly visible) from New York City; and Reverend Robert J. Stone from New York City. Seated is Dr. Robert McAfee Brown, faculty member of Stanford University.

August 5, 1964.

Jailed minister reads support message: Tallahassee, Florida (1964)

Clergymen freed in surprise court action: Tallahassee, Florida (1964)

Image number: RC12792

These white and Negro clergymen elected to go to jail on a 60-day sentence rather than pay a $500 fine each. The ministers were arrested in 1961 when they refused to obey an order to end a sit-in at the airport restaurant. In a surprise court action they were set free after spending four days in jail on a 60-day sentence.

From bottom to top are Rabbi Martin Freedman from Paterson, New Jersey; Reverend John W. Collier from Newark, New Jersey; Rabbi Israel Dresner of Springfield, New Jersey; Reverend Arthur L. Hardge from New Britain, Conneticut; Reverend A. McArven Warner of New York City; Reverend Petty D. McKinney from Nyack, New York; Dr. Robert McAfee Brown of Stanford, California; Reverend Wayne Hartmire, Jr. from Culver City, California; and Reverend Robert J. Stone of New York City.

August 7, 1964.

Clergymen freed in surprise court action: Tallahassee, Florida (1964)

Integration in the Bronson school system: Bronson, Florida (1966)

Image number: PR05163

Summer kindergarten with teacher Mrs. Mary Lower.

Integration in the Bronson school system: Bronson, Florida (1966)

Integration of North Miami Junior High School (1970)

Image number: PR05157

Photographed May 1, 1970.

Integration of North Miami Junior High School (1970)

Integration at Vineland Elementary School: Dade County, Florida (1971)

Image number: PR05159

Photographed June 13, 1971.

Integration at Vineland Elementary School: Dade County, Florida (1971)