- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- James Farmer, August 5, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-08-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- James Farmer at the headquarters for the Congress of Racial Equality in New York. Written on verso: CORE Leader Speaks -- James Farmer, national director of Congress of Racial Equality, is shown at CORE headquarters, New York, August 5, where he held a press conference in connection with the discovery of three bodies in Mississippi. The bodies are believed to be those of missing civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, Michael H. Schwerner and James Chaney, who were last seen June 21. In a press conference Farmer called for "vigorus [sic] prosecution" of those who were responsable [sic], "not for vengeance but to forestall any future incidents of that kind".
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:05078
- 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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