- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- Civil rights demonstration at the Carolina Theater
- Creator:
- The State Media Company (Columbia, S.C.)
Dawson, Mickey - Date of Original:
- 1963-09-09
- Subject:
- Columbia (S.C.). Police Dept.
Civil rights movements
Demonstrations
Reporters and reporting
Police
Segregation
Theaters - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- A Columbia police officer intervenes during a civil rights protest at the Carolina Theater while a reporter takes notes. Student activists, organized by the Youth Movement of the NAACP, are protesting segregated movie theaters. Twenty-three students were arrested following the day's events.
1223 Main Street, Columbia, S.C. - Local Identifier:
- state_267_0283
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/2988
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- 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 267, Negro Demonstrations, trying to get into movie houses and parading down Main Street, The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Richland Library
- Rights:
-
