Customers and employees walk over demonstrators as they sit and block the doorway in protest of the racist hiring practices of the Jefferson Bank and Trust.
Three demonstrators lie in front of a police department truck as it pulls away from the curb with a load of persons arrested during a resumption of civil rights demonstrations at the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company.
Police utility men place a limp demonstrator (above) on a stretcher as they begin removing persons seated on the floor of the bank. They sat beneath signs posting new banking rules and warning demonstrators of court order.
Demonstrators protested against the lack of African Americans holding white collar position at the Bank. At the time, out of the 80 employees there only 2 were Black: one was a custodian and the other was a messenger.
Blocking police truck trying to enter the parking lot of the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company are demonstrators who included Alderman William L. Clay and Lawrence Woodson and State Representative Hugh J. White.
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