Civil Rights Hunger Strikers – Black Enterprise

Civil Rights Hunger Strikers

Some of the 33 persons on a hunger strike in the state Capitol pass the time listening to their radio in Frankfort, Kentucky, March 20, 1964. The group has been in the House gallery since Monday and vowed to starve until the Kentucky Legislature acted on a civil rights bill. The accommodations law is dead at this session which ends today. A leader said the group would stay as long as ìwe feel weíre serving a useful purpose.” (AP Photo)


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