- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Demonstrators at a PCB Protest, 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Demonstrations
Environmental justice - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Warren County, 36.39659, -78.1069
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A woman (at center) and other demonstrators are shown protesting in front of two police officers at a PCB (Polychlorinated Biphenyl) protest in Warren County, North Carolina. The protests were in response to North Carolina's plan to develop a landfill in Warren County to dump Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB), a dangerous industrial chemical.
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.199:03083
- 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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