- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Incident in Rochester, New York, July 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-07
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Race relations
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, New York, Monroe County, Rochester, 43.15478, -77.61556
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A woman stands on the front porch of a home in Rochester, New York as water from a fire hose is aimed at the occupants on the porch. Caption on photo reads: (RU 20) ROCHESTER, N.Y., July 26 -- WATER COOLED BUT CLUBS WERE NEEDED -- A stream of water from fire hoses tears into porch in Negro section of Rochester today as authorities attempt to apprehend a group of Negroes. The water had no effect and police charged the porch to subdue the agitators. Woman stands alone here as her companions seek shelter behind porch's wall.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04856
- 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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