Village of Yellow Springs, Ohio

Hundreds of area students, residents and law enforcement officials jammed downtown Yellow Springs on Xenia Avenue during a chaotic demonstration against Gegner’s Barber Shop due to barber Lewis Gegner refusing to give African Americans haircuts. Top photo on the banner from left, Arthur Morgan, Paul Graham, an unidentified man, Walter Anderson and Hardy Trolander (partially hidden) leading a march. Photos by Axel Bahnsen courtesy of Antiochiana, Antioch College.

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