- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Alabama State Troopers Block Entrance to Murphy High School, September 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-09
- Subject:
- African American students
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Education
African Americans--Segregation
School integration - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Alabama State Troopers are shown blocking the entrance to Murphy High School to turn away Dorothy Bridget Davis and Henry Hobdy as part of George Wallace's executive order. Caption on photo reads: (MOB2) MOBILE, ALA., Sept. 9 - TROOPERS TURN BACK STUDENTS - With Alabama State Troopers blocking the main entrance to Murphy High School, Negro students, arms loaded with school books, Dorothy Bridget Davis, 16, and Henry Hobdy, 17, turn away from school. Hobdy is reading his copy of an executive order from Governor Wallace stopping the pair from attending classes. Murphy high is Alabama's largest high school with 3,300 students.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02150
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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