- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Black Women's Coalition Meeting
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Meetings--Georgia--Atlanta
Political campaigns
Politics and government--Georgia--Atlanta
Audiences--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Housing Authority
LaBord, Susie - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Susie LaBord, a social activist and member of the Atlanta Housing Authority, chastising Atlanta mayoral candidates (not pictured) for not answering questions asked at a meeting of the Balck Women's Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia.
Susie LaBord was a social activist who worked on behalf of the urban poor. She served as the Grady Homes Tenant Association President. In 1972, she became the first resident of an Atlanta public housing project to serve as a voting member of the Atlanta Housing Authority. She also served on boards and committees for United Way, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.476.007
ahc101476007.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1838
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1838/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:
-
