African American Men Seated at a Lunch Counter
Demonstrators would bring homework or something to do while they waited to be served. Or they would just wait.
In this photograph the man in the closest to the camera is reading a book, the next man is taking the cartridge out of his camera, and the last demonstrator seems to be reading a book as well.
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African American Men Seated at a Lunch Counter. "News and Observer". 1960. Film Negative. North Carolina Digital Collections. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/Documents/Detail/african-american-men-seated-a... (Accessed December 5, 2018)
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