- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- Gov. Riley with NAACP officials
- Creator:
- The State Media Company (Columbia, S.C.)
Hoemann, Darrell - Date of Original:
- 1979-05-15
- Subject:
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. South Carolina State Conference - People:
- Riley, Richard W. (Richard Wilson)
Williams, Isaac W., 1945-2008
Wilson, Margaret Bush, 1919-2009
Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson), 1925-2010 - Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Richland County, 34.0218, -80.90304
United States, South Carolina, Richland County, Columbia, 34.00071, -81.03481 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- NAACP representatives deliver a proclamation to Gov. Richard Riley urging action to improve education for African-American students in South Carolina. Delivering the proclamation are (left to right): Margaret Bush Wilson, chairwoman of the board of the NAACP; state NAACP conference president Dr. W. F. Gibson of Greenville; Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the NAACP; and state NAACP field director Isaac Williams. The NAACP is hosting a meeting in Columbia to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education landmark Supreme Court case ordering the desegregation of public schools. South Carolina played a role in this case by bringing forward the Briggs vs. Elliott court case in Clarendon County, S.C. relating to school integration.
- Local Identifier:
- state_065_0011
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/7904
- 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 65, NAACP march and Governor's office, The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Richland Library
- Rights:
-
