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| Creator: | Southern Labor Archives |
| Title: | Race riot at the Fairgrounds swimming pool, St. Louis, Missouri, June 21, 1949 |
| Date: | 1949 June 21 |
| Description: | Text on reverse: "News release: NEGRO SWIMMING PERMISSION INCITES RIOT.... St. Louis, Mo. A group of white youths shown crowding around a negro who already has been attacked. Two feet are shown extended as if to kick the negro to the ground. A baseball bat belonging to one of the youths is also visible. (When Negroes attempted in 1949 to enter St. Louis' municipally-owned Fairground Park swimming pool they were kicked and beaten by mobs of white youths armed with baseball bats.)" Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States. Local identification number: L1979-37_072 |
| Types: | photographic prints | StillImage |
| Subjects: | Kennedy, Stetson | Racism--Missouri--Saint Louis | Terrorism | Violence--Missouri--Saint Louis | Segregation--Missouri--Saint Louis | Violence | Race riots | United States, Missouri, Saint Louis County, Saint Louis, 38.6268039, -90.1994097 |
| Collection: | Stetson Kennedy Papers |
| Institution: | Georgia State University Special Collections |
| Contributors: | Georgia State University. Special Collections |
| Original Material: | Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library |
| Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ Cite as: L1979-37_072, Stetson Kennedy Papers, L1979-37, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/10587 |
