- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Sargent Shriver Press Conference
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1972
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Children--1970-1980
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Press conferences
Political campaigns
Audiences--Georgia--Atlanta
Hall, Leon
Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.)
Atlanta Biltmore Hotel and Biltmore Apartments (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Leon Hall, a civil rights worker with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with his children at a press conference held by Vice Presidential nominee Sargent Shriver (not pictured) during a campaign stop at the Sheraton-Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (1915- ) is an attorney who became the first director of the Peace Corps in 1961 and served in that capacity until 1966. He also served as the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity from 1964 to 1968 and as the United States Ambassador to France for two years. In 1972, Sargent Shriver became George McGovern's Vice Presidential running mate. Shriver later sought the Democratic nomination for President in 1976. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.530.026
ahc101530026.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2411
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2411/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:
-
