- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Ethel Matthews and Emmaus House
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1970/1980
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Grocery stores--Georgia--Atlanta
Eyeglasses
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1970-1980
Episcopal Church--Parish missions
Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization
Economic assistance, Domestic--Georgia--Atlanta
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 an unidentified woman purchasing goods from Ethel Matthews (seated, far left), the founder of the Atlanta Welfare Rights Organization, at the Emmaus House Community Store in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Emmaus House, located in the Peoplestown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1967 by Father Austin Ford as an Episcopal Church mission dedicated to advancing civil rights and reducing poverty. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.222.002
ahc101222002.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/411
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:411/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:
-
