Negatives (photographs)
Object number
2018.015.216
Date
April 2 1960
Description
Series of photographs showing the Newport chapter of the NAACP picketing chain stores in Newport and Middletown [W. T. Grant Company and F. W. Woolworth Co.], as part of a nation-wide protest against segregation at lunch counters in stores operated by these chains. Those pictured include Ermino Lisbon [city deputy finance director and president of the Newport NAACP chapter], Ernestine Lomax, and Elaine Parker.
Materials
photographic emulsion
Credit Line
Gift of the Edward A. Sherman Publishing Co.
Object Type
negatives (photographs)