- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Atlanta Protests
- Date of Original:
- 1964-01-25
- Subject:
- White supremacy movements--Georgia--Atlanta
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Atlanta
Restaurants--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Commercial buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Racism--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Race discrimination
African Americans--Social conditions
Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations
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:
- Although Atlanta claimed to be "a city too busy to hate," racial animosity is evident in this 1964 photograph documenting simultaneous protests. The Ku Klux Klan, marching to protest the desegregation of an Atlanta hotel, passes by a group of African Americans demonstrating against a segregated restaurant.
Photograph of members of the Ku Klux Klan, marching to protest the desegregation of an Atlanta, Georgia hotel, passing by a group of African Americans demonstrating against a segregated restaurant. A police officer stands between the protesters and the three Ku Klux Klan members. One of the African American protesters holds a sign that reads "Atlanta's image is a fraud." - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-rights-movement/m-4172/
- Rights Holder:
- Photograph from Corbis. All visual media copyrighted by Corbis Corporation and/or its media providers
Photograph from Corbis - 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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