- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Municipal Election
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-10-02
- Subject:
- Politics and government--Georgia--Atlanta
Political campaigns--1970-1980
Political elections--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1970-1980
Signs and signboards
Politicians--Georgia
Politicians--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights leaders--Georgia
Clothing and dress--1970-1980
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Evans, John
Ward, Horace T. (Horace Taliaferro), 1927-
Howard, James - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of a crowd watching the results of the Atlanta municipal election, including (from left to right) John Evans, the director of the DeKalb County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Georgia State Senator Horace Ward; Atlanta City Councilman James Howard; and unidentified individuals, on election night in Atlanta, Georgia.
Horace T. Ward (b. 1927) was an Atlanta attorney who was a partner in the law firm of Hollowell, Ward, Moore and Alexander in the early 1960s. He later served as a Georgia State Senator from 1965 to 1974. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter appointed him to a federal judgeship on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Ward was the first African American appointed to the federal bench in Georgia. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.377.005
ahc101377005.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1053
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1053/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
