Creating the United States
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“Give Us American Rights”
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s fought to achieve for African Americans the rights that the Declaration of Independence guaranteed for all Americans. In this photograph, a white young man holding a sign reading “Go Home Negro” and an African American young man holding a sign reading “Give Us American Rights” picket together in front of the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The store was the site of a lunch-counter sit-in by black students protesting segregation. Picketing, counter-picketing, and sit-ins were among the many forms of non-violent protests that played a significant role during the Civil Rights Movement.