- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
African American civil rights workers
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:
- Delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sit outside of a hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey waiting for rooms. Caption on photo reads: (AC14) ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 21 -- THEY HOPE TO WIN SEATS AT CONVENTION -- Delegates from the Democratic Freedom party sit on luggage on the sidewalk outside their Atlantic City hotel waiting for rooms today shortly after their arrival at the site of the Democratic national convention. They claim the right to represent Mississippi at the convention, to the exclusion of the regular all-white Democratic delegation from that state. White girls are not delegation members.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04827
- 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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