Photo of Earl Allen at Piccadilly Cafeteria Civil Rights Protest
Description:
Black and white photographic print of Earl Allen at a June 1964 civil rights protest at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. The image shows Allen, a local leader with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), wearing a plaid jacket and sunglasses, turned to look at a white man in a hat. Several other white men stand around Allen outside the cafeteria. The white man standing behind Allen at the right of the image is an unknown cafeteria employee whose job was to bar ent…
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Date:
June 2, 1964
Creator:
Dallas County Sheriff's Department
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Partner:
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza