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• Downtown Baton Rouge
• State Level Significance
• Ethnic Heritage• First Louisiana Sit-
Ins of Modern Civil Rights Movement -- 1960
Kress Building
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Kress Building, East Baton Rouge Parish
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Reads as two stories
Windows replaced; some openings boarded over
Party wall, masonry construction
Remodeled 1930s in Moderne style
“L” shaped footprint
Third Street Facade
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Partly encircles Levy Building
L-Shaped plan reflects growth & enlargement
Reads as four stories
Architectural features more restrained
Windows also replaced
Main Street Facade
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Greensboro, North Carolina, February 1, 1960
The Sit-In Movement
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Non-Violent Direct Action
vs.
Lengthy Court Cases
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Well-behaved & non-violent no matter what
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By end of February sit-ins in 15 cities in five states:
North and South Carolina
Tennessee
Florida
Virginia
100 cities by November 1960
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Kress Department store
Sitman’s Drug Store (lost)
Greyhound Bus Station (lost)
Baton Rouge Sit-Ins March 28, 1960
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Seven Southern students peacefully challenge segregated lunch counter
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Weapons Search of Protester Felton Valdry
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Paddy wagon – jail transport – on the right
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Janette Hoston Harris with her jail identification bracelet
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Opposed sit-ins as threat to university. . .
Expelled protesters
Southern President
Felton G. Clark
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Southern students
fill out withdrawal
slips
Withdraw or stay in school?
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Scholars recognize as distinct and significant phase of Civil Rights Movement
No more second class citizenship
Inspired others to act via non-violent direct action
Accelerated pace of social change
New and younger class of black leaders
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Led to court cases that helped overturn segregation
Importance of Sit-Ins
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U.S. Supreme Court . . .
• overturned convictions of students for disturbing the peace
• affirmed the principle that a licensed public business could not discriminate or operate in a segregated fashion.
Garner vs. Louisiana December 1961
Thurgood Marshall & A. P. Tureaud
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Exceptional Significance
• Only four years shy of 50 year threshold• Civil Rights Movement is “period of time
which can be logically examined together.”— Bulletin 22
• Sit-In Movement and Baton Rouge Sit-Ins are subjects of scholarly study. Movement called “watershed in the history of black protest” in U.S.
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Kress Building of Exceptional Significance to Louisiana and eligible for National Register