- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Columbians
- Date of Original:
- 1946
- Subject:
- White supremacy movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Charters--Georgia--Atlanta
Brooms and brushes--Georgia--Atlanta
Photographers--Georgia--Atlanta
Desks--Georgia--Atlanta
Columbians Incorporated
Hate groups--Georgia--Atlanta
Neo-Nazis--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- Loomis, Homer L., 1914-
Childers, James Ralph
Duke, Daniel - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Homer Loomis, left, holds an envelope addressed to state assistant attorney general Dan Duke while Ralph Childers sweeps the torn-up charter for the Columbians, Inc. into it. Loomis and Childers were members of the white supremacist organization, which aimed to intimidate African Americans and Jews in Atlanta.
Photograph showing Homer Loomis, left, holding an envelope addressed to Georgia state assistant attorney general Dan Duke while Ralph Childers sweeps the torn-up charter of the Columbians, Inc. into it. Several desks sit in the room, and several unidentified people are sitting in the background. A photographer stands behind them, taking their photograph. The Columbians was the nation's first neo-Nazi political organization. Loomis and Childers were members of the white supremacist organization, which aimed to intimidate African Americans and Jews in Atlanta, Georgia. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/columbians/m-10460/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/columbians
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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