- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- March Against Repression
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-2023
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Date of Original:
- 1970-05-23
- Subject:
- Demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1970-1980
Protest movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Jesse Jackson and protestors during the March Against Repression in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jesse Jackson (1941- ) is a civil rights leader and Baptist minister. In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chose Jackson to direct the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s (SCLC) Operation Breadbasket, a program that employed boycotts to pressure businesses to hire African Americans and buy goods and services from black contractors. Jackson later founded two non-profit organizations advocating civil rights, social justice, and political activism: Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition. The two organizations merged in 1996. Jackson made two unsuccessful bids for the democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/byd/id/4870
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis photographs||MSS 1118, Southwind recordings, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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