- Collection:
- Neighborhood Union Collection
- Title:
- "Protestors Stage March", April 12, 1969
- Date of Original:
- 1969-04-12
- Subject:
- African American civic leaders
African Americans--Civil rights
African American student movements
Protest movements
African Americans--Education - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article regarding 225 people, mostly African Americans, marching in Hampton, South Carolina to protest red tape and slowness in implementing federal poverty programs. The march was organized by the Hampton NAACP and included students from Notre Dame University and St. Mary's College. There were no arrests during the march, but four people were arrested on Thursday for blocking traffic on U.S. 601. The students from Notre Dame and St. Mary's had been in the area conducting a survey of poverty conditions.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:2079
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Original Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records||http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:076
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
