- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Policeman Carrying a Box of Dynamite from Birmingham Mayor's Home, 1965
- Date of Original:
- 1965
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Crime - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A policeman carries a case containing fifty sticks of dynamite and a timing device that was placed in the home of Birmingham Mayor Albert Boutwell. Caption on photo reads: (BM4) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 1 *-- DYNAMITE FOUND AT MAYOR'S HOME -- Two city policemen carry a case containing 50 sticks of dynamite and a timing device from the home of Mayor Albert Boutwell in Birmingham today. The mayor was out of town, but his wife and son slept nearby when the bomb was found and deactivated. A second similar bomb was found at a councilwoman's home and a third exploded in a Negro residential area, injuring one boy and causing extensive damage.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02176
- 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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