- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- Interview in Lamar, S.C.
- Creator:
- The State Media Company (Columbia, S.C.)
Tutte, Vic - Date of Original:
- 1970-03-03
- Subject:
- School integration
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Darlington County, 34.33235, -79.95769
United States, South Carolina, Darlington County, Lamar, 34.16877, -80.06257 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Scenes near a riot in Lamar, S.C. in which white protesters opposed to integrating Lamar High School overturned several school buses carrying black children to the previously all white school. The protesters, mostly white women, also threw bricks and other objects at students and school employees. In a related incident South Carolina National Guardsmen dispersed a large crowd of white protestors that formed along the road to the school to block buses. This photograph depicts a television news reporter conducting an interview with someone involved.
- Local Identifier:
- state_268_0264
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/6788
- 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 268, Lamar, S.C., 4D-5442, The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Richland Library
- Rights:
-
