- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Segregation Protest
- Date of Original:
- 1962
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Sidewalks--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
Georgia State Capitol (Atlanta, Ga.)
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Students protest segregation at the state capitol building in Atlanta on February 1, 1962. The passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 ended legal segregation across the nation.
This photograph shows students protesting segregation at the Georgia state capitol building in Atlanta, Georgia on February 1, 1962. Two African American women march on a street holding signs reading, "The presence of segregation is the absence of democracy. Jim Crow must go!" Several white men stand in the background on a sidewalk. The passage of the federal Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 ended legal segregation across the nation. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/morris-brown-college/m-10469/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/segregation
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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