- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Girl Sitting in a Car With a Broken Window, 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Subject:
- African Americans--Segregation
School integration
African Americans--Civil rights - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A student who desegregated West End High School sits in a car whose window is broken from a rock that was thrown at it as the students were leaving the school. Caption on photo reads: (BM5) BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Sept. 11 -- CAR WINDOW SMASHED -- One of two Negro girl students who desegregated West End High School in Birmingham sits in car and is partially framed by broken auto window. A rock was hurled through the window as the Negro girls were leaving the school area after class this afternoon.
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.199:02178
- 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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