- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- A Group of Students Hold Anti-Apartheid Protest Signs During a Demonstration at Augusta College, October 14, 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-10-14
- Subject:
- Africa
Apartheid
International relations
Demonstrations
African American students - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Augusta College students and Southern Christian Leadership Conference members are shown holding anti-apartheid signs during a demonstration to protest the performance of a South African boys choir at the college. Written on verso: SCLC Condemns Apartheid -- Black students at a predominantly white Augusta College in Augusta, Georgia stage demonstration with SCLC leaders, including National SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery, to protest a concert appearance there by the Drakensberg Boys Choir of South Africa. The students met with the institution's administration, but the concert was not cancelled. Nevertheless, their opposition reached the ears of the choir's members and much of the American public. A performance scheduled for the choir at the University of Georgia several days before, was cancelled following protests from black students there.
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.199:02495
- 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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