- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph E. Lowery at a Building Damaged in the Miami Riots, May 1980
- Date of Original:
- 1980-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Race discrimination
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami, 25.77427, -80.19366
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference Joseph E. Lowery points to the spraypainted message "Payback!!!!" on the wall of a building that was destroyed during three days of rioting in Miami, Florida. Written on verso: Payback! ... The message is clear to Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who surveys the charred remains of a business in Miami's Liberty City where the acquittal of four white ex-police officers in the fatal beating of black businessman Arthur McDuffie sparked three days of rioting. Sixteen people were killed and $100 million in damage was done from fire-bombing, sniping and vandalism. Lowery was summoned to Miami to help ease racial tensions. While there he met with U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti who is spearheading a federal investigation into McDuffie's death.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04613
- 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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