- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Daisy Bates address Freedom Rally
- Contributor to Resource:
- Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007 (Photographer)
- Date of Original:
- 1959-07-31
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Memphis--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Civil rights--Tennessee--Memphis
Civil rights
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
African Americans
Social reform movements - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Bates, Daisy - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, 35.184, -89.8956
United States, Tennessee, Shelby County, Memphis, 35.14953, -90.04898 - Medium:
- digital images
photographs
prints (visual works) - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Daisy Bates address Freedom Rally. In background is banner with photographs of candidates (L-R); Russell Sugarmon, Benjamin Hooks, Roy Love, Henry C. Banton. Mrs. Bates was leader of the Little Rock, Ark. NAACP movement to integrate Central High School.
This object was added to the Digital Preservation Network in November 2017. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A1876
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Volunteer Voices--http://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/volvoices
Memphis Civil Rights Photograph Collection - Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
