Cambridge Protester Helped from Scene of Beating: 1963
One of six sit-in protesters is helped away from the Dizzyland restaurant in Cambridge, Md. July 12, 1963 where the group was attacked by whites seeking to preserve segregation.
African American bystanders outside the restaurant engaged in a ten-minute brawl with the white attackers before police arrived and broke up the fighting.
The Maryland National Guard was sent into the town days afterward and occupied the town under martial law for nearly a year.
For more images of the Cambridge civil rights protests 1962-67, see flic.kr/s/aHsk3Pe6xA
For a background story on the Cambridge civil rights struggle, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/raging-civil-rig...
For an account of the 1937 Phillips Packing Co. Strike in Cambridge, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/1937-phillips-pa...
The photographer is unknown. Image courtesy of the D.C Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Cambridge Protester Helped from Scene of Beating: 1963
One of six sit-in protesters is helped away from the Dizzyland restaurant in Cambridge, Md. July 12, 1963 where the group was attacked by whites seeking to preserve segregation.
African American bystanders outside the restaurant engaged in a ten-minute brawl with the white attackers before police arrived and broke up the fighting.
The Maryland National Guard was sent into the town days afterward and occupied the town under martial law for nearly a year.
For more images of the Cambridge civil rights protests 1962-67, see flic.kr/s/aHsk3Pe6xA
For a background story on the Cambridge civil rights struggle, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2015/05/31/raging-civil-rig...
For an account of the 1937 Phillips Packing Co. Strike in Cambridge, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/1937-phillips-pa...
The photographer is unknown. Image courtesy of the D.C Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.