Associated Press Mayor's Neighbors Picket Rights Marchers
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09718.05 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Chicago, Illinois Type: Photograph Date: 4 August 1965 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.4 cm. Order a Copy
One wirephoto entitled, "Mayor's Neighbors Picket Rights Marchers," taken by Associated Press dated August 4, 1965. Image is of protesters walking down a street while white individuals standing on a doorstep hold signs in support of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Wire transfer information states that 100 people marched in a demonstration led by comedian Dick Gregory. The purpose of the march was in protests of Benjamin Willis.
Benjamin Willis had implemented the use of trailers, critically known as "Willis Wagons" as classrooms in over-crowded, predominately African American schools and refused to allow African American students to attend predominately white schools with extra space.
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