- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Committee on Civil Rights
- Publisher:
- Dorothy Rogers Tilly papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.
- Date of Original:
- 1946
- Subject:
- Social reformers--Washington (D.C.)
Women social reformers--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.)
Women civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.)
Lobbyists--Washington (D.C.)
Women--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--United States
Presidents--United States
Men--Washington (D.C.)
Politicians--Washington (D.C.)
Women in church work
United States. President's Committee on Civil Rights - People:
- Tilly, Dorothy Rogers, 1883-1970
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dorothy Tilly, a civil rights activist from Georgia, stands to the right of President Harry S. Truman (center) and his Committee on Civil Rights, to which she was appointed in 1946. Three years later Tilly founded the Fellowship of the Concerned, a biracial group dedicated to educating white southerners as a means of overcoming prejudice.
Photograph of Dorothy Tilly, a civil rights activist from Georgia, standing to the right of President Harry S. Truman (center) and his Committee on Civil Rights, to which she was appointed in 1946. Three years later Tilly founded the Fellowship of the Concerned, a biracial group dedicated to educating white southerners as a means of overcoming prejudice. Tilly began a lifetime of civil rights work in 1918 with the Women's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/dorothy-rogers-tilly-1883-1970/m-7537/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/dorothy-rogers-tilly-1883-1970
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Dorothy Rogers Tilly Papers - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights: