- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Police Arresting Protesters at a Civil Rights Demonstration, November 15, 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-11-15
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African Americans--Segregation
Demonstrations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Martin County, Williamston, 35.8546, -77.05551
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Police are shown marching a group of civil rights demonstrators into a court house and arresting them for unlawful demonstration in Williamston, North Carolina. Caption on photo reads: (WST1) WILLIAMSTON, N.C., Nov. 15 -- COLLECTING CROSSES -- A Williamston police officer takes a cross from the hands of Rev. David King (out of view) of Amherst, Mass., as police marched a group of ministers and Negroes in the front door of the Court House and arrested them for unlawful demonstration. Second from right is Rev. Harvey Cox of Newton, Mass., who still holds his cross. Fifty-four of the Demonstrators are in jail.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02284
- 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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