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Arthur Beaumont reaches for a demonstrator blocking the entrance to the Woollen Gym parking lot.

Several weeks after the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen failed to pass a public accomodation ordinance, the Chapel Hill Freedom Movement retaliated with a series of sit-ins and marches. Sit-ins blocked the exits to the Woollen Gymnasium parking lots.

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Arthur Beaumont reaches for a demonstrator blocking the entrance to the Woollen Gym parking lot.

Photograph by Jim Wallace made on February 8, 1964.

Citation: Jim Wallace, “Arthur Beaumont reaches for a demonstrator blocking the entrance to the Woollen Gym parking lot.,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 24, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/images/arthur-beaumont-reaches-for-a-demonstrator-blocking-the-entrance-to-the-woollen-gym-parking-lot.

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