Howard University's Laurence Henry (right) helped desegregate an Arlington, VA lunch counter, June 1960.

ID: 4281 ~ Source: Star Collection, DC Public Library, © Washington Post
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Howard University's Laurence Henry (right) helped desegregate an Arlington, VA lunch counter, June 1960.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Howard University

These first two lines of a song sung to the tune of “Down by the Riverside” by Howard University student protestors during a 1968 campus uprising capture the spirit of civic activism that has consistently defined a segment of the university’s…