During the struggle for the civil rights of African Americans, the occupation of lunch counters and restaurants was a familiar tactic to force their desegregation. In this photograph a group of activists are holding a sit-in at a Toddle House restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. John Lewis (b. 1940), a civil rights leader and currently a member of the United States House of Representatives, and Judy Richardson, a founding member of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and now a producer of prize-winning documentaries, are among those pictured.