Reverend Avery Alexander

ID: 6120 ~ Creator: “Drag Demonstrator Away,” Morning Advocate, 4 November 1963.

This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall

Photo of police officers dragging Reverend Avery Alexander across the ground away from City Hall where he and other civil rights activists staged a sit-in to protest continued racial segregation in public spaces.

This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall

Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall

By Courtney Carver & Lauren Smith

During the 1960s, Jim Crow laws confined Black New Orleanians to second class citizenship: white owned businesses, restaurants, hotels, and other establishments denied accommodations for Black…