- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- A Tougaloo College Student Marching With a Cross in Front of Kneeling Protesters, May 2, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-05-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Church buildings - Location:
- United States, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, 40.44062, -79.99589
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A student at Tougaloo College in Mississippi is shown carrying a burned cross at a protest by hundreds of Methodists in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Caption on photo reads: (PG2) PITTSBURGH, May 2 -- BURNED CROSS, A SYMBOL OF PROTEST -- Austin Moore, 21, a student at Touglaoo College at Tougaloo, Miss., carries a burned cross at a protest by hundreds of Methodists today in Pittsburgh. They claim their church's stand on integration is inadequate. Moore said the cross was burned by segregationists on the campus of his college.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02283
- 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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