Reverend Avery Alexander
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
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 customers. The City of New Orleans also enforced racial…