- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Casmarah Mani Testifies at the U.S. Justice Department, May 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race discrimination - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Casmarah Mani testifies at a special congressional briefing at the Justice Department. The hearing was part of a series of events organized by the National Anti-Klan Network, an organization founded by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Written on verso: Mr. Casmarah Mani of Mobile, Alabama testifies before U.S. Justice Department officials about the threat he got from Mobile police officers in 1976 who dangled a lynch rope before him. Mani is leading the protests in Mobile over this year's lynching of 19-year-old Michael Donald.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04529
- 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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