Photo of Earl Allen at Piccadilly Cafeteria Civil Rights Protest
Description:
Black and white photographic print of several individuals at a June 1964 civil rights protest at the Piccadilly Cafeteria on Commerce Street in downtown Dallas. The image shows Earl Allen, a local leader with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), looking at a white man who is possibly identified as attorney John Browning Wilson. Allen is wearing a plaid jacket and sunglasses while smoking a pipe. Directly behind Wilson, looking towards Allen, can be seen an African American man wearing a polo…
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Date:
June 2, 1964
Creator:
Dallas County Sheriff's Department
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