Kodak, FIGHT, and the definition of civil rights in Rochester, New York: 1966-1967. (Freedom-Integration-God-Honor-Today)

The Historian | September 22, 1997| | Copyright

As the audience jeered, Minister Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence, a stocky black man with a pencil mustache and an angry expression, stormed out of the April 1967 annual stockholders meeting of the Eastman Kodak Company. In the parking lot, he addressed a crowd of picketers waving signs reading "Kodak Snaps the Shutter on Negroes" "Kodak is Lost in the Dark Room," "Kodak is Out of Focus." A group of reporters nearly as large as the crowd looked on as Florence threatened, "If it is war Kodak wants, it is war Kodak will get,"(1)

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