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Young student marchers, both Black and white, point accusingly at segregated businesses in Chapel Hill.

W. Leon Cotton is the young boy wearing a sweater vest, pointing his right hand. Linda McCauley Atwater is on the far right, wearing a striped skirt and short sleeve blouse pointing with her right hand.

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Young student marchers, both Black and white, point accusingly at segregated businesses in Chapel Hill.

Photograph by Jim Wallace.

Citation: Jim Wallace, “Young student marchers, both Black and white, point accusingly at segregated businesses in Chapel Hill.,” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 23, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/images/young-student-marchers-both-black-and-white-point-accusingly-at-segregated-businesses-in-chapel-hill.

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