Local Chapter of NAACP protest in front of Hager's Department store. Marchers cover entire block carrying signs. Signs include "Segregated Jobs" and "If We Buy Why Not Sell?" Three lanes of traffic with cars such as Corvairs, '60 Chevy Convertible, Ford Station Wagon, '56 Chevy, Nash Rambler and Ford Falcon.
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MG-240, Series 2
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MG-240, Series 2, Folder 16, Item 2
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MG0240
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Custodial History
Added to database on 31 March 2022.
Digitization of this document was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 202010016624, 2020-2023.
African American woman seated in chair reading a book. Formal portrait. From "Captives' Mansion" by S. R. Slaymaker II, page 195: ". . . accompanied by my ninety-year old black nanny, 'Nana,' who was born a slave in the South and had come to Colonel Slaymaker's household as a young woman. She had cared for S. R. I, S. C. II, and me, when I visited the farm."
Lancaster's southeast quadrant, the seventh ward, shown with members of Lancaster City Council and Redevelopment Authority tour the area to be cleared in the 1960s. Mayor George Coe, with paper in paper in pocket, leads the group. W. Hensel Brown, Jr. is on the sidewalk at left.
The Tranells, Lancaster's recording group, did "Come On and Tell Me" in the 1960's. Left to right: Howard Washington, Chet Stewart, Dave MacPhail, Joan Stewart, Ernie Jamison, Jim Jackson.
