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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Rich's Strike
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-05-12
- Subject:
- Strikes--Georgia--Atlanta
Employee rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Demonstrations--Georgia--Atlanta
Police--Georgia--Atlanta
Uniforms--1980-1990
Trucks--1970-1980
Street signs--Georgia--Atlanta
Rich's (Retail store)
Atlanta Police Department (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Midtown, 33.7811275, -84.38636 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Atlanta police officers awaiting protesters marching in support Rich's workers who were on strike because of alleged discriminatory practices at the retail store, at the corner of Peachtree Street and Fifteenth Street in the Midtown area of Atlanta, Georgia.
Rich's Department Store was founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1867 by Morris Rich, a Hungarian-born immigrant. The business expanded over several decades, and eventually was located on the corner of Alabama and Broad Streets in downtown Atlanta. In the 1960s and 1970s the store opened in several other locations. In 1948 a seventy-foot live Christmas tree was first placed on the roof of Rich's downtown department store. Thereafter, the Lighting of the Great Tree became an Atlanta tradition. In 1960, several African American college students protested segregationist policies practiced by Rich's until the store agreed to desegregate its stores in 1961. Rich's department store was phased out in 2005. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.522.011
ahc101522011.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2188
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2188/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights: