From left - Mr. R. Kelly Bryant, local historian, Mrs. Mary Clyburn Hooks,
Ms. Virginia Williams, Rev. Douglas Moore, participants, lower right
foreground Mr. William Marsh, attorney.
Rev. Doug Moore was the pastor of Asbury Temple Methodist Church from 1956 to 1959.
Being an active civil rights worker, he was one of the first to start the early demonstrations and sit-ins that
sparked national protests and demonstrations. On June 23,1957, Rev. Moore and seven students entered the Royal
Ice Cream Company at Roxboro and Dowd Streets, in Durham and sat down at the dairy bar. This protest resulting
in his arrest, was the first recorded sit-in of the national civil rights movement. The State Historical Marker website says that the sit-in took place three years before the famous Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in in 1960.
It has taken several years and the hard work of Kelly Bryant, but the event is now commemorated with the marker pictured above.
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Asbury Temple United Methodist Church is called by God
to make disciples of Jesus
Christ
by offering hope, healing and hospitality
to Northeast Central Durham and beyond.
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