- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Long Island, New York Protests, September 4, 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-09-04
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Segregation
School integration - Location:
- United States, New York, Queens County, Long Island City, 40.74482, -73.94875
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Eleanor Butler and her daughter are escorted by police after a sit-in at Davison Avenue School in the village of Lynbrook on Long Island, New York. Written on verso: Protesting parent arrested -- Mrs. Eleanor Butler and her daughter Leonora, 6, are escorted by Lynbrook, Long Island, New York, police on Sept. 4 at the Davison Avenue School in Lynbrook after her arrest. Police arrested five Negro parents and a Long Island civil rights official for loitering as they sat-in at the predominantly white elementary school. Principal Ray Blank of the Davison Avenue School, to which the demonstrators want more Negroes assigned, told them the Board of Education directed the arrests. Blank refused to admit the children without prescribed student transfer cards. At this point parents began the sit-in.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04561
- 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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