- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Demonstrators Marching Across the Brooklyn Bridge, March 1, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-03-01
- Subject:
- Demonstrations
Protest movements
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Demonstrators march across the Brooklyn Bridge en route to demand better educational services for Puerto Ricans in the city's school system. Written on verso: Puerto Ricans on the March -- Demonstrators march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, March 1, en route to the Board of Education offices in Brooklyn to press their demands for improved educational facilities for Puerto Ricans in the city's school system. The marchers, estimated at more than 2,000, rallied outside city hall and then marched to Brooklyn. Towers of the bridge and part of New York City skyline are in the background.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04853
- 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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