Harvey Milk Students Protest at Castro Safeway After Racial Profiling Incident

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Families and staff at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, a public elementary school in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood, organized a protest at Safeway on behalf of a fifth-grader who attends the school. Most of the 250 students, accompanied by parents and teachers, marched from the school to Safeway on March 5.

Rev. Dr. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco NAACP, spoke to the gathered crowd. Students took turns standing on a wooden box marked "soap" in front of the store and talked about teaching Safeway the lesson that racial discrimination is wrong. Some of the youngsters' signs read, "Safeway is not safe," "This is disappointing," and "Stop stealing black boy joy."