- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Birmingham Policeman Stands in Front of a Crowd, May 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-05
- Subject:
- African American men
African American women
African Americans--Civil rights
Demonstrations - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A Birmingham policeman is shown standing in front of a crowd of demonstrators. Caption on verso: MISCALCULATION COULD MEAN VIOLENCE -- Police reaction to jeering crowds, in either north or south, could result in major racial violence in the U.S. this summer. As this policeman in Birmingham faced a crowd in May of this year, so will other law enforcement officers in other cities face demonstrators. A miscalculation in the handling of a crowd could be the spark that touches off a racial conflagration.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02148
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Photographs; Subseries: SCLC - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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