- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. at a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Buildings
Special events - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and others celebrate the opening of a west coast bureau office for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Caption from the June 1964 SCLC Newsletter: SCLC OPENS WEST COAST BUREAU -- Cutting the ribbon to formally open the new combined offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Western Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., SCLC President (third from right), officiates at recent ceremonies. The bureau will be under the direction of Rev. Thomas Kilgore (fourth from right) who formerly headed the New York office of SCLC. Opening of the new office now brings to a total of three branch offices for SCLC besides the home office in Atlanta.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04849
- 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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