- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Mennonite Teaching Team
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Subject:
- Women--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Religious education--Georgia--Atlanta
Mennonites--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- An interracial Mennonite Bible school teaching team poses in Atlanta in 1963. These volunteers were part of a project sponsored in Atlanta by the Mennonite Central Commitee, which sent minister Vincent Harding to organize desegregation efforts in the South.
Photograph of an interracial Mennonite Bible school teaching team in Atlanta, Georgia in 1963. The ten women stand on the steps of a building and smile. They wear light-colored dresses.
These volunteers were part of a project sponsored in Atlanta by the Mennonite Central Committee, which sent minister Vincent Harding to organize desegregation efforts in the South. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/mennonites/m-10774/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted by permission of Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/mennonites
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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