Atlanta, Georgia. Anonymous Woman Who Has Come upon a Mob Abusing Demonstrators with Kicks, Blows, and Burning Cigarettes. She Holds the Mob at Bay and Protects the Demonstrators

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph of a white woman with her hand on her hip scolding a young white man in the street while a crowd of onlookers surrounds them.

Catalog date

1963-1964; printed 1994

Recorded places

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

Recorded subjects

African American; Civil Rights; Photography; U.S. History, 1961-1969; Violence

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