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Photo shows political protest by members of the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination. A large group of protesters is participating in a sit-in at a Cadillac agency in San Francisco. About thirty demonstrators are sitting in front of a building with a Cadillac logo. Other people (protesters/spectators/Cadillac employees(?) and a photographer) are standing behind the group of protesters. Two police officers are removing a male, African American demonstrator from the center of the sit-in. Each police officer is grabbing an arm as they drag the protester forward. Some of the other demonstrators are smiling and applauding. The following information is written in pencil on the back of the photograph: "Tom Flemming" [with a circle indicating location of person in photo]; "w beret I think BALLARD" [Roy Ballard]; "Heather Evans"; and "Dr. Burbridge fourth from left back row smiling". In 1964 the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination organized a number of demonstrations to protest racial discrimination in hiring procedures, including protests against Sheraton-Palace, Auto Row, Mel's Drive-in, the Oakland Tribune, and Cadillac. Picketing began at Cadillac on March 16, 1964.