- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery and John Nettles Lead Operation Breadbasket Protest, 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Employment - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Calhoun County, Anniston, 33.65983, -85.83163
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Joseph E. Lowery and John Nettles are shown with signs leading a group of demonstrators outside of a supermarket in Anniston, Alabama. Written on verso: SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery (left) and Alabama SCLC President John Nettles display signs outside a supermarket in Anniston, Alabama that is part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's "non-cooperation with injustice" campaign launched through the reinstated "Operation Breadbasket" project which seeks to promote economic development in the black community. SCLC Field Secretary Rev. R.B. Cottonreader (at right) coordinates the participants of the campaign.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02304
- 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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