Photo of Earl Allen at Piccadilly Cafeteria Civil Rights Protest
Description:
Black and white photograph of people at a June 1964 civil rights protest at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. Based on notes made on the backs of other photos in the collection showing the same person, the African American man on the right is identified as the Reverend Earl Allen, a local leader with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Allen was a co-organizer of this twenty-eight-day demonstration, along with local activist Clarence Broadnax. Standing next to …
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Date:
June 1, 1964
Creator:
Dallas County Sheriff's Department