- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Voter's Rights Press Conference
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
African Americans--Suffrage
Press conferences
Activists
Civil rights movements
Microphone
National Democratic Party of Alabama
United States Commission on Civil Rights
Cashin, John L. (John Logan), 1928-
Doctor, Bobby - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Dr. John Cashin, a civil rights activist from Alabama, speaking at a press conference regarding voting rights, in Atlanta, Georgia, with Bobby Doctor, the head of the Southern regional office of the United States Civil Rights Commission in Atlanta, also in attendance.
Dr. John L. Cashin was a dentist from Huntsville, Alabama and a civil rights activist. He founded the National Democratic Party of Alabama in an effort to give African Americans a voice in state politics. In 1970, he ran as the party's candidate for governor against George Wallace. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.557.007
ahc101557007.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2570
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2570/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
