"The Other Side Wins if We Lose Our Cool"
This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall
NAACP poster emphasizing nonviolence in the civil rights movement.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch Collection (MSS 28), Louisiana and Special Collections, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.
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…