- Collection:
- African American Odyssey
- Title:
- The return of the soldier
- Creator:
- White, Charles, 1918-1979
- Date of Original:
- 1946
- Subject:
- African American veterans--Southern states
Race discrimination--Southern states
Police--Southern states
Police corruption--Southern states
Southern States--Social conditions
African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States
Civil rights--United States
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
White supremacy movements--Southern states
Whips
Firearms - Location:
- United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
- Medium:
- drawings (visual works)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A pen-and-ink drawing illustrating an armed police officer and a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a whip standing over three African American men who are on their knees and lying on the ground. This image expresses the artist's belief about the treatment of African American veterans returning from the World Wars by members of law enforcement and white supremacy organizations.
Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- Reproduction number: LC-USZC4-4886 (8-19)(b&w film neg.); (digital file from original negative)
- Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:loc_afamodyssey_0819001r
- Digital Object URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/08/0819001r.jpg
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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