50 Years/50 Collections: Connie Harse On the Frontlines of CORE
The Connie Harse papers at the Amistad Research Center provides a pictorial history of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans during the 1960s. The collection, donated by Harse in 1999, contains some of the Center’s most widely circulated photographs that depict lunch counter protests at McCrory’s and Woolworths on Canal Street in 1961. The photographs have been used in our physical and digital exhibitions on civil rights print culture and in publicity materials for the Cen