- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- A Civil Rights Worker Lifts a Rope for Mayor Robert Wagner, August 28, 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-08-28
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Demonstrations
Political science - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- An unidentified civil rights worker is shown raising a rope to allow New York City Mayor Robert Wagner into an area reserved for dignitaries at a civil rights rally. Caption on photo reads: (WX39) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- RAISING THE ROPE FOR WAGNER -- An unidentified civil rights group member raises the rope to help New York City Mayor Robert Wagner into area reserved for dignitaries at civil rights rally at Lincoln Memorial today following March on Washington parade.
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.199:02270
- 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: