- Collection:
- Audio-Visual Photographs
- Title:
- Integration Sit-in #8, 1970
- Publisher:
- Hapeville, Ga. : Fulton County Schools Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1970
- Subject:
- Georgia--Fulton County
Student protesters
School integration - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This image originated in 1970 at was then the Fulton County Schools administration building on Cleveland Avenue in East Point, Georgia. This student sit-in marked a time when the school system was grappling with desegregation in the wake of contested efforts to racially integrate both students and staff. Similar sit-ins and protests took place at schools and county offices before and after this photograph was taken. Behind the efforts to desegregate were directives from the federal government's Department of Health, Education and Welfare and and the board's own plan of gradual desegregation. Within a year of this photograph, the county schools were integrated.
- Metadata URL:
- https://fcsarchives.omeka.net/items/show/392
- Contributing Institution:
- Fulton County Schools Archive
- Rights:
-
