- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Mary E. Peabody at the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Demonstrations
African Americans--Segregation - Location:
- United States, Florida, Saint Johns County, Saint Augustine, 29.89469, -81.31452
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Mary E. Peabody, the mother of the governor of Massachusetts, sits with other women in the dining room of the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida in an effort to integrate the restaurant. Caption on photo reads: (JV10) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 31 -- ARRESTED IN MOTEL DINING ROOM -- Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, center, chats with a friend as she sits with five Negro women in the dining room of the Ponce de Leon Motor Lodge at St. Augustine, Fla. today. Mrs. Peabody, mother of the Massachusetts governor, was arrested along with scores of others after service was refused and dogs were used to break up racial demonstrations. Mrs. Peabody was in St. Augustine with a group of New England sympathizers.
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.199:04620
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199
Series: Photographs; Subseries: Subjects - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
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