- Collection:
- Memphis civil rights photograph collection
- Title:
- Demonstration during public school boycott
- Creator:
- Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007
- Publisher:
- Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection, Box 1, Item 21, Memphis Public Library, Memphis, Tennessee
- Date of Original:
- 1969
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Memphis
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis
African Americans--Tennessee--Memphis
Boycotts--Tennessee--Memphis
Memphis (Tenn.)--Race relations
Race relations
African American clergy--Tennessee--Memphis
Segregation in education--Tennessee--Memphis - People:
- Bell, Ezekial
Sugarmon, Laurie - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Black-and-white photograph from the fall of 1969 of Laurie Sugarmon and Reverend Ezekial Bell leading a demonstration during the Memphis, Tennessee public school boycott. Civil rights workers in Memphis organized "Black Mondays," school boycotts where African American children stayed out of school on Mondays, to protest the all-white school board over a district that was predominately African American. In November 1969, two non-voting African Americans were appointed to the school board, ending the boycotts.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A1872
- Rights Holder:
- For current rights information, please visit: http://idserver.utk.edu/?id=200600000001200
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Contributing Institution:
- Memphis Public Library. Memphis and Shelby County Room
- Rights:
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