Biography
Richard Frank Parker was a white Florida State University student and the only white participant in the Negro lunch-counter sit-ins in Jacksonville, Florida. Jailed on a vagrancy charge for a 90-day term, he had his jaw broken by a segregationist while in custody; he was freed after serving 60 days following nationwide protest.
Photo credit
Photographer unidentified. National Guardian, October 17, 1960, page 5. Caption explicitly identifies Richard Frank Parker. Rectangular crop of the rendered newspaper scan; no retouching or generated pixels. Source photograph.
