Harassment at Arlington, Virginia Sit-In: 1960

'Adolescents influenced by the American Nazi Party harass Dion Diamond during a civil rights sit-in at the Cherrydale Drug Fair in Arlington, VA June 10, 1960.
Some threw lit cigarettes at the sit-in demonstrators while others kicked them. Verbal harassment was constant.
Diamond was part of a small integrated group called the Non-Violent Action Group (NAG) that led a two week campaign that resulted in integration of restaurants in Arlington, including this Drug Fair. Restaurants in Alexandria and Fairfax, Virginia soon followed.'

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