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Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration

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Creator:Wilson, Bill (William Bryan), 1914-1993
Title:Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration
Date:1966 Jan. 31
Description:

View of (l-r) an unidentified man, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, and Juanita Abernathy and unidentified residents of the Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia who were protesting their living conditions.

Religious leaders;

In January of 1966, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his wife Coretta Scott King, and the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Juanita led a protest march in the Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia to call attention to substandard housing in that area.

Local identification number: VIS 99.235.18

Types:Black-and-white photographs
Subjects:King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990 | Abernathy, Juanita Odessa Jones | King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006 | African American neighborhoods--Georgia--Atlanta | Civil rights movements--Georgia--Atlanta | Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta | Slums--Georgia--Atlanta | Discrimination in housing--Georgia--Atlanta | African American women--Georgia--Atlanta | African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta | Direct action--Georgia--Atlanta | Picketing--Georgia--Atlanta | African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta | Atlanta (Ga.) | Vine City (Atlanta, Ga.)
Collection:Bill Wilson Photographs, 1938-1979, undated
Institution:Atlanta History Center
Online Publisher:Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center | 2006
Original Material:

35 mm black and white negative

Bill Wilson Photographs, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Ga.

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