- Collection:
- Chattanooga Sit-ins and desegregation
- Title:
- Image, Digital
- Creator:
- Associated Press
- Date of Original:
- 1960-02-24
- Subject:
- Race relations
Chattanooga (Tenn.)--Race relations
African Americans--Tennessee--Chattanooga
African Americans--Social conditions
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Segregation--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Discrimination in public accommodations--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Police brutality--Tennessee--Chattanooga - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga, 35.04563, -85.30968
- Medium:
- digital images
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Digitized photograph from the Associated Press, February 24, 1960, during the protests that followed the Chattanooga sit-ins of February 1960 begun by Howard High School students. Caption: "Officers work to disperse the thousands of person who massed in the downtown section today in Chattanooga's 2nd straight day of race trouble. Later, fire hoses were used to break up the crowds. The scene is at the intersection of Market and Eighth Streets." - See more at: http://chattanooga.pastperfectonline.com/photo/84CA6532-4710-402B-9C74-783815823646#sthash.r0nWpdqh.dpuf
- Metadata URL:
- http://chattanooga.pastperfectonline.com/photo/84CA6532-4710-402B-9C74-783815823646
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Mitchell and Sherra Kinder Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- Rights:
-
