Cherrydale in Arlington in Arlington County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
Cherrydale Drug Fair Sit-In
At 2:30 pm on June 9, 1960, the first day of lunch-counter protests in Northern Virginia, six individuals from Howard and Duke Universities helped challenge discrimination at commercial eating establishments in the state by beginning a lunch-counter sit-in at the Cherrydale Drug Fair once located here, 3815 Lee Highway. They were:
Charles Cobb
Ethelene Crockett
Dion Diamond
David Hartsough
Laurence Henry
Joan Trumpauer
The six were joined at 3:00 pm by a worker at the Drug Fair:
Joseph Wooten
The seven maintained their vigil until the store closed at 10:00 pm, facing down a counter-demonstration and taunts by members of the American Nazi Party. The sit-inners were encouraged by some on-lookers but endured verbal and physical abuse from others. The action of these seven helped bring about the desegregation of lunch counters throughout Arlington and contributed ultimately to the passage by Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Erected 2018 by The Cherrydale Citizens Association.
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Location. 38° 53.802′ N, 77° 6.413′ W. Marker is in Arlington, Virginia, in Arlington County. It is in Cherrydale. It is on Langston Boulevard (Route 29) just east of North Pollard Street, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 3815 Lee Hwy, Arlington VA 22207, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in the Washington Metropolitan Area and in Northern Virginia. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, in the Mid-Atlantic, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the original Thirteen Colonies, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
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Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 9, 2022
2. 3185 Lee Highway, a hair salon on the date of the photo
Credits. This page was last revised on February 1, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 9, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 1,015 times since then and 66 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on April 9, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
