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Protesting Segregated Businesses in Farmville
Credit: James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives, VCU Libraries
Original Author: Unknown
Created: August 24, 1963
Medium: Photograph

Protesting Segregated Businesses in Farmville

Demonstrators picket in front of Safeway grocery and W. T. Grant variety store in Farmville on August 24, 1963. With their handmade signs, the protesters urge local shoppers not to patronize segregated businesses.

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