- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Gerri Thompson Speaking at a Voting Rights Rally, circa 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1980/1982
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Voting - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gerri Thompson is shown speaking at a podium during a Voting Rights Act rally in Atlanta, Georgia. Written on verso: Battle Fierce Over Voting Rts. -- Ms. Gerri Thompson, director of the Voter Education Project based in Atlanta, presides over an afternoon rally supporting extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The rally was sponsored by several local organizations, including SCLC.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02925
- 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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