- 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.
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.199:04654
- 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
Series: Photographs; Subseries: Subjects - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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