- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Protest, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Political participation - Location:
- United States, New Jersey, Atlantic County, Atlantic City, 39.36415, -74.42306
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Demonstrators in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sit in protest outside of the convention hall at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Caption on photo reads: (AC20) ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 24 -- ALL-NIGHT VIGIL UNDERWAY ON BOARDWALK -- Demonstrators supporting the Freedom Democratic party delegation from Mississippi to the Democratic convention in Atlantic City are seated on the boardwalk outside Convention Hall today in what their spokesmen called an all-night vigil. Some 70 persons took their places just after midnight. The convention credentials committee is to decide today whether to seat the predominantly-Negro Freedom group or an all-white delegation.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04824
- 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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