- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Civil Rights Demonstrators at the World's Fair, April 22, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-04-22
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations - 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:
- A man stands on top of a car holding a sign that reads "First Class Citizenship Now!" as part of a group of demonstrators who were protesting for civil rights on the opening day of the World's Fair in New York. Caption on photo reads: (FA 16) NEW YORK, APRIL 22 -- DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE WORLD'S FAIR -- A Negro demonstrator stands atop a stalled auto on Roosevelt Ave. outside the New York World's Fair this morning as civil rights supporters attempted to tie up traffic by stalling autos on roads leading to the fair's opening ceremonies. Police horse is at left.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04858
- 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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