- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Demonstration in Atlanta
- Date of Original:
- 1947
- Subject:
- Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Discrimination in employment--Georgia--Atlanta
Women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Racism--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Race discrimination
African Americans--Social conditions
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1947 demonstrators gather in Atlanta to demand the desegregation of the Atlanta police force. The signs read: "For Negro Police"; "105,000 Negro Citizens Rate at Least 1 Negro Police"; and "Negro Police Will Aid in Law & Order."
Photograph showing demonstrators gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, to demand the desegregation of the Atlanta police force in 1947. Several of the demonstrators are holding signs. The signs read: "For Negro Police"; "105,000 Negro Citizens Rate at Least 1 Negro Police"; and "Negro Police Will Aid in Law & Order." - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-rights-movement/m-4170/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-rights-movement
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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