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John Salter Jr., activist from lunch counter protest photo, dies at 84

A community organizer pictured in an iconic photograph while challenging racial segregation in Mississippi in the 1960s has died at his home in Pocatello, Idaho.

In an iconic photo from the civil rights era, white people pour sugar, ketchup and mustard on the heads of sit-in demonstrators at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Miss., on May 28, 1963.
In an iconic photo from the civil rights era, white people pour sugar, ketchup and mustard on the heads of sit-in demonstrators at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Miss., on May 28, 1963.Read moreJackson Daily News, Fred Blackwell
    by EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, The Associated Press
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