- Collection:
- Stetson Kennedy Papers
- Title:
- African American home set on fire by Ku Klux Klan, Georgia, February 28, 1949
- Date of Original:
- 1949-02-28
- Subject:
- Racism--Georgia
Terrorism
Arson--Georgia
Fires
Rural conditions
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - People:
- Kennedy, Stetson
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Text on reverse: "Klan fires negro home, Ga. 2/28/49. A Negro mother and son burned out of their home by the Klan in Georgia. Labeled 115 Klan burns home of Negro family, it shows frame house afire with figures before it and truck parked in the middle distance." 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 Identifier:
- L1979-37_069
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/10596
- Additional Rights Information:
- 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).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
Cite as: L1979-37_069, Stetson Kennedy Papers, L1979-37, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta. - Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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