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 Do’s and Don’ts of Picketing by Ezra Weiss.

 Demonstrators march down Franklin Street in protest of public accommodations laws.

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. On February 8, 1964, demonstrations like this one on Franklin Street effectively disrupted the town.

 Demonstrators congregate at St. Joseph CME Church before a march.

Demonstrators congregate at St. Joseph CME Church before a march.   Reinvigorated by the March on Washington, activist rallied across the country, including in Chapel Hill, where participants often number in the hundreds.

 Demonstrators arrested at Colonial Drug Sit-in

Demonstrators, including Walter Mitchell (center), are arrested during a night sit-in blocking the door to Colonial Drug.   Members of owner John Carswell’s family and a friend watch from the inside.

 Demonstrator arrested at Merchants Association sit-in

A demonstrator arrested at the Merchants Association sit-in is carried through the garage in the Chapel Hill jail building.

 Della Pollock, Executive Director of the Jackson Center, hails the youth “cypher team” after their improvisational “Knockin’ on the Mayor’s Door” brought the crowd packed in St. Joseph’s sanctuary to its feet during the May Day celebration, 2010.

 Dedication of the Yonnie Chapman Memorial Library

Dedication of the Yonnie Chapman Memorial Library at the second annual May Day Festival and debut of the “Facing Our Neighbors” exhibit from which the portraits and transcriptions shown here are drawn.

 Crowd gathers to prepare for a march in front of St. Joseph C.M.E. Church at the corner of Rosemary and Roberson.

 CORE organizer, Quinton Baker, teaches effective nonviolence tactics to local activists and leads a practice protest march.

 Community members gather in song at a candlelight vigil after the “reunion dinner” of over 300 activists, neighbors, and friends that concluded the “Civil Rights in Chapel Hill” weekend celebration.

 Clementine (Fearrington) Self leads demonstrators

Clementine (Fearrington) Self leads demonstrators.   Marchers almost always carried the American flag, but not the North Carolina flag, during their protests.From left to right: Theodore “Buddy” Bynum, Lou Pearl Alston, Ruby Farrington, Clementine Self

 Civil Rights protesters march from St. Joseph C.M.E. to Franklin Street

A protest march makes its way from St. Joseph's CME Church to Franklin Street. To maintain calm, the Chapel Hill police often treated the marches as parades. Eat at Joe's, the restaurant named in the banner carried in the front, was named in many signs protesting segregation. The owner was a vocal…

 Chapel Hill police officers round up demonstrators for arrest at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Merchants Association sit-in

Chapel Hill police officers David Caldwell, Coy Durham, Charles Allison, and Herman Stone round up demonstrators for arrest at the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Merchants Association sit-in.

David Caldwell is the Black officer standing on the left. Judy Booth can be seen sitting in the front. Raeford…

 Chapel Hill Police stand between civil rights demonstrators and counter-protesters at Colonial Drug

Chapel Hill Police Lt. Graham Creel (left) and John Nesbitt (right) stand between civil rights demonstrators and counter-protesters at Colonial Drug. Larry Caswell is the little boy holding the sign “Sing Along with John.” “2-4-6-8- who the hell wants to integrate” was almost a national chant in…

 Chapel Hill High Student responds artistically to the power of song is social movements.

 Chapel Hill High student responds artistically to learning about Civil Rights in Chapel Hill.

 Casey Molina, First?

Casey Molina, First?, inspired by an interview with William Carter, held in the Jackson Center Oral History Trust.

 Brother Robert Revels leads neighbors in song at the “Facing Our Neighbors” multi-media exhibit and festival, 2010.

Brother Robert Revels leads neighbors in song at the “Facing Our Neighbors” multi-media exhibit and festival, 2010.

 Brooke Sobolewski responds artistically to stories of community in Northside

 Boys stage a counter-protest directed at marchers at the segregated Colonial Drug

Boys stage a counter-protest directed at marchers at the segregated Colonial Drug.

 Before each sit-in, demonstrators had to agree to practice nonviolent resistance by going limp to neither assist nor resist arrest.

Before each sit-in, demonstrators had to agree to practice nonviolent resistance by going limp to neither assist nor resist arrest.   Here, they lie on Franklin Street, awaiting transportation to jail.

 Alyssa Oppenwal responds artistically to an interview with James Foushee

 Albert Williams teaching 8th graders at Smith Middle School about the civil rights movement, February, 2014.

Albert Williams teaching 8th graders at Smith Middle School about the civil rights movement in Chapel Hill, February, 2014.

 A woman stares at protesters who block her car from exiting the university parking lot.