- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Mrs. A.G. Gaston Showing Newsmen Bomb Damage to Home, 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Race discrimination
Crime - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Mrs. A.G. Gaston tells the press about two fire bombs that were thrown at the window of her home. Caption on photo reads: (BM1) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept 9 -- TELLS OF BOMB DAMAGE -- Mrs. A.G. Gaston, wife of a Negro millionaire, tells newsmen in Birmingham yesterday how two fire bombs were thrown at the window of her palatial home before dawn. No one was injured and damage was slight. Lampshade at left was burned, glass was broken from the window and the exterior of the house was blackened.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02179
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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