- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Don A. Hawkins Walks Past a Group of Segregationists, September 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-09
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Segregation
Demonstrations - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Birmingham city council member Don A. Hawkins walks past a group of segregationists at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama. Caption on photo reads: (BM8) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 22 -- TRIES TO IGNORE SIGNS -- Don A. Hawkins, a member of the Birmingham city council and one of five city leaders named to meet tomorrow in Washington with President Kennedy, walks past a group of segregationist today at the airport. An altercation took place between Hawkins and some sign bearers moments before. The demonstrators accused Hawkins of being an integrationist and a tool of Mayor Albert Boutwell.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02154
- 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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