The Civil Rights movement of the post-war years began locally with quiet demonstrations like this one captured on film by KSTP television. Members of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People carried signs in protest of the policies of chain restaurants in downtown Minneapolis that refused to serve African Americans. [Note: this video has no sound.]
Photograph on web page: NAACP picketing Woolworth's for integrated lunch counters, St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press, Minnesota Historical Society Photograph Collection, 1960. Loc. no. J7.5 p5
Creator: KSTP Television
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Date: 1960
Identifer: accession Reel no. 590.1, clip no. 12361