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Freedom group hang signs on bus

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Title:Freedom group hang signs on bus
Date:1961
Description:

Members of the "Washington Freedom Riders Committee," en route to Washington, D.C., hang signs from bus side windows to protest segregation, New York, New York.

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Types:Black-and-white photographs
Subjects:Buses--New York (State)--New York | Segregation--United States | Race discrimination--United States | Civil rights demonstrations--New York (State)--New York | Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York | Freedom Rides, 1961 | New York (N.Y.)
Collection:Voices of Freedom: The Virginia Civil Rights Movement
Institution:Library of Congress
Contributors:Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | Voices of Civil Rights Collection (Library of Congress)
Online Publisher:[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress | 2005
Original Material:

1 photographic print

Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Rights and Usage:

LC-DIG-ppmsca-08129 (digital file from original photo)

LC-USZ62-125958 (b&w film copy neg.)

Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html)

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Exhibited: Voices of Civil Rights, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005.

Persistent Link to Item:http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08129