November 20,1957: Wake Forest Students Protest Dance Ban

WFC Protest

Wake Forest College was one of the denominational colleges where dancing on-campus was banned.

Students protested the ban with lighting firecrackers, playing blaring radios, and dancing.

On this day in 1957, Wake Forest students protested the ban with a campus line dance, the bunny hop.

Photo courtesy of Forsyth County Public Library Photograph Collection.

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