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Picketing the Dairy Bar, 1963

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Staff

A Thousand Words
By Jock Lauterer

Birmingham? Memphis? Greensboro? No, this is Chapel Hill. Newcomers to Carrboro/Chapel Hill might be surprised to learn that our communities were riven by racism through the tumultuous ’60s. From the Roland Giduz Collection at UNC’s Wilson Library comes this 1963 image of protesters picketing the Long Meadow Dairy Bar on what is now Franklin Street’s hip and trendy west end. Truth to tell, the summer before the indefatigable newsman shot this image with his trusty 4×5 Speed Graphic, I worked here as a “soda jerk” and was shamefully naïve of the Dairy Bar’s segregationist policy (blacks were served at the ice cream counter but couldn’t sit down in the dining room). But all that would soon change; by the following autumn, the Dairy Bar had changed its policy and I, a freshie at UNC, was out in the streets protesting too. Photo-historians will recognize this building, directly across the street from Chapel Hill Tire, as the former location of the legendary Pyewacket restaurant.

A THOUSAND WORDS
Do you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.
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