Sit-In at Independence Hall

While guard continued to conduct tours around the famed Liberty Bell in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on March 12, 1965, ten young persons staged a sit-down around the bell. Robert Brand, left, in white coat, said the group was the University of Pennsylvania Branch of the NAACP, and added they were protesting treatment of African Americans in Selma, Ala. He said they were wearing black armbands in memory of the Rev. James J. Reeb, Boston clergyman beaten to death in Selma. School children walk around bell and the demonstrators. Guards took no immediate action against the youths. Associated Press.