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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Welfare Rights Organization Gathering
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1969/1989
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Welfare rights movement--Georgia--Atlanta
Meetings--Georgia--Atlanta
Interiors--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization
Episcopal Church--Parish missions
Matthews, Ethel M., 1933-2005
Emmaus House (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peoplestown, 33.72788, -84.3852
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Ethel Matthews (left), the founder of the Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization, and other unidentified women at a meeting of the organization at Emmaus House in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Ethel Mae Matthews was the founder and first president of the Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization and was a persistent advocate for the poor, the elderly, and children. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.565.002
ahc101565002.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2592
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2592/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: