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| Creator: | Freedom on Film |
| Title: | Picketing at the Piggly Wiggly |
| Date: | 1965 |
| Description: | Demanding integration and equal opportunities in Americus, Georgia, black and white citizens joined together in protesting discriminatory hiring practices at the local supermarkets. On August 2, 1965, seven men and women protest outside the Americus Piggly Wiggly grocery store. They ask shoppers to boycott the store, reasoning that since the Piggly Wiggly supported itself on African American patronage, it should in turn support its patrons by hiring African American employees. Freedom on Film is a component of the Civil Rights Digital Library, which received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Articles | Lesson plans | Teaching guides |
| Subjects: | Walker, T. Griffin (Thomas Griffin), 1910-1994 | Race discrimination--Georgia--Americus | African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Americus | African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Americus | Civil rights workers--Georgia--Americus | Discrimination in employment--Georgia--Americus | Protest marches--Georgia--Americus | Picketing--Georgia--Americus | Boycotts--Georgia--Americus | Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Americus | Civil rights movements--Georgia--Americus | Direct action--Georgia--Americus | Nonviolence--Georgia--Americus | Sumter County Movement (Americus, Ga.) | Americus (Ga.) | Sumter County (Ga.) |
| Collection: | Americus |
| Institution: | Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (University of Georgia) |
| Contributors: | Civil Rights Digital Library Collection (Digital Library of Georgia) | Freedom on Film Collection |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Freedom on Film | 2007 |
| Rights and Usage: | Cite as: Freedom on Film : Civil Rights in Georgia, http://civilrights.uga.edu/ For permission to use story passages or images from the Web site, contact Dr. Barbara McCaskill at bmccaski@uga.edu. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of the Civil Rights Digital Library. Forms part of the Freedom on Film Learning Object Website. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.civilrights.uga.edu/bibliographies/americus/pigglywiggly.htm |
