- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- A Woman Holding a Sign That Reads "You No Hire, We No Buy", 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
African Americans--Economic conditions - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Calhoun County, Anniston, 33.65983, -85.83163
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A woman is shown holding a sign that reads "You No Hire, We No Buy" and leading youth demonstrators during an Operation Breadbasket rally. See pages 30-33 of the December-January, 1981/1982 SCLC Magazine for more information: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:07084. Written on verso: Operation Breadbasket -- The Calhoun County SCLC's "selective buying campaign" in Anniston, Alabama enjoys the support of several youths, particularly on weekends when they are out of school. The campaign is part of the newly reinstated "Operation Breadbasket" project which encourages businesses that earn profits in the black community to reinvest in the black community and employ blacks in proportion to their patronage, population in the community or other relevant factors.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02620
- 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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