- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- Civil rights demonstrators are arrested
- 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
Prisoners--Transportation
Police - 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:
- Columbia police officers apprehend civil rights protesters on Blanding Street in front of the Tapp's Department store. 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.
Blanding Street, Columbia, S.C. - Local Identifier:
- state_267_0297
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/3016
- 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:
-
