23 Test Public Accommodations on Maryland's Eastern Shore

Item

Swarthmore_Phoenix 23 Test Public Accomodations.jpg

Title

23 Test Public Accommodations on Maryland's Eastern Shore

Subject

Civil Rights
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Swarthmore College

Description

Article from The Swarthmore Phoenix published on February 9, 1962 reporting on demonstrations aimed at testing racial segregation policies at businesses in Chestertown, Maryland. The article focuses on student involvement in supporting the efforts of freedom riders and reports on what happened at the demonstrations, how the establishments reacted, as well as instances of retaliatory violence against demonstrators.

Creator

Will Bloch

Publisher

Swarthmore College

Date

02-09-1962

Rights

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Content is free to copy and redistribute in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes provided appropriate credit is given. Derivatives and transformed versions of the material may not be distributed.

Format

jpg

Language

eng

Type

Text

Coverage

Chestertown (Md.), Kent Island (Md.), Centreville (Md.), Baltimore (Md.), Swarthmore (Pa.), Philadelphia (Pa.), Chester (Pa.), New Haven (Ct.)

Original Format

newspaper print

Citation

Will Bloch, “23 Test Public Accommodations on Maryland's Eastern Shore,” Civil Rights 1960-1966, accessed December 22, 2024, https://ds-exhibits.swarthmore.edu/civil-rights-1960-1966/items/show/19.