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| Title: | Glynn County prison camp after guards open fire on prisoners, Brunswick, Georgia, July 11, 1947 |
| Date: | 1947 July 11 |
| Description: | Text on reverse: "July 11, 1947, Brunswick Ga., Glynn County prison camp. Guards fired on 27 convicts, 8 killed, 5 wounded. (Had refused to work in snake-infested ditch; guard captain drunk)" 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_205 |
| Types: | photographic prints | StillImage |
| Subjects: | Kennedy, Stetson | Police brutality | Prisons--Georgia--Brunswick | Prisoners--Georgia--Brunswick | Prison riots--Georgia--Brunswick | Prison guards | Prison laborers | Prison riots | United States, Georgia, Glynn County, Brunswick, 31.1499528, -81.4914894 |
| Collection: | Stetson Kennedy Papers |
| Institution: | Georgia State University Special Collections |
| Contributors: | Georgia State University. Special Collections |
| 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_205, 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/13123 |
