- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers With Their Attorneys, September 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-09
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Race discrimination
Crime - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Madison County, 34.12778, -83.20904
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers (second and third from left) are shown clasping hands with their attorneys upon the news of their acquittal in a murder trial. Caption on photo reads: (AX2) DANIELSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 5 -- JURY FREES TWO IN NIGHT RIDER SLAYING -- Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers (in shirt sleeves) clasp hands with their attorneys after the two men were acquitted in the killing of a Negro educator, Lemuel Penn, of Washington, D.C., who was shot down on a north Georgia highway July 11. Left to right are James Hudson, Sims, Myers, John Dorsey and Harold Boggs.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04654
- 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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