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| Title: | Betty Penland, secretary of The Columbians, standing at podium, Atlanta, Georgia, 1946 |
| Date: | 1946 |
| Description: | Text on reverse: "Betty Penland, mascot-secretary of the Columbians in whose hotel room Homer Loomis was caught barefooted." The Columbians were a white separatist organization formed in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1946-1947, often seen as a rival organization to the Ku Klux Klan. 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_019 |
| Types: | Photographic prints | StillImage |
| Subjects: | Racism--Southern States | Terrorism | Fascism--Georgia--Atlanta | Meetings | Podiums | Kennedy, Stetson | United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.7489954, -84.3879824 |
| Collection: | Stetson Kennedy Papers |
| Institution: | Georgia State University Special Collections |
| Contributors: | Georgia State University. Libraries |
| Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ Cite as: Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library Cite as: L1979-37_019, 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/10608 |
