- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- March in Edgefield
- Creator:
- Gilmore, Doug
The State Media Company (Columbia, S.C.) - Publisher:
- Columbia, S.C. : Richland Library
- Date of Original:
- 1981-06-28
- Subject:
- Automobiles
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Roads - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Edgefield County, 33.77229, -81.96658
United States, South Carolina, Edgefield County, Edgefield, 33.78958, -81.92956 - Medium:
- images (object genre)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- After a prayer service at Strom Thurmond High School, around 1,000 people take part in a four-mile march to the Edgefield Town Square from the school in support of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, parts of which are set to expire in 1982. The march was sponsored by Jesse Jackson's Chicago-based Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the Edgefield County branch of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Marchers carry various signs including an Operation PUSH banner.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/12143
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright © The State Media Company. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the Walker Local and Family History Center at Richland Library, Columbia, S.C. 29201.
- Original Collection:
- Box 272, Civil Rights||The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Richland Library
- Rights:
-
