- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Atlanta Crusade Against Crime Press Conference
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Civil rights leaders
Press conferences
Hotels--Georgia--Atlanta
Activists
Business people--Georgia--Atlanta
Draperies in interior decoration
Interiors--Georgia--Atlanta
Microphone
Operation PUSH (U.S.)
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Munford, Dillard
Paschal's Motor Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Hunter Street, 33.779068, -84.295553
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, 33.752388, -84.463131 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Jesse Jackson (second from left), a civil rights activist and founder of Operation PUSH; Dillard Munford (third from left), a businessman and cochairman of the Atlanta Crusade Against Crime; and other unidentified individuals at a press conference sponsored by the Atlanta Crusade Against Crime at Pascal's Motor Hotel on Hunter Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jesse Jackson (1941- ) is a civil rights leader and Baptist minister. In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chose Jackson to direct the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) Operation Breadbasket, a program that employed boycotts to pressure businesses to hire African Americans and buy goods and services from black contractors. Jackson later founded two non-profit organizations advocating civil rights, social justice, and political activism: Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) and the National Rainbow Coalition. The two organizations merged in 1996. Jackson made two unsuccessful bids for the democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.433.013
ahc101433013.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1510
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1510/manifest.json
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U. S. Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
