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| Creator: | Trikosko, Marion S. |
| Title: | Bomb-damaged trailers at the Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama |
| Date: | 1963 May 14 |
| Description: | Photograph showing the wreckage of a bomb explosion near the Gaston Motel where Martin Luther King, Jr., and leaders in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were staying during the Birmingham campaign of the Civil Rights movement. Title devised by Library staff. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Homes and haunts--Alabama--Birmingham | Southern Christian Leadership Conference | African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham | Bombings--Alabama--Birmingham | Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham | Race discrimination--Alabama--Birmingham | Race discrimination | Gaston Motel (Birmingham, Ala.) | Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963 | Birmingham (Ala.) | Jefferson County (Ala.) |
| Collection: | The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress |
| Institution: | Library of Congress |
| Contributors: | Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Online Publisher: | Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress |
| Original Material: | 1 negative : film Job no. 9771, frame 17, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Rights and Usage: | No known restrictions on publication. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress online exhibit. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04293 |
