- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Atlanta Child Murder Cases Memorial
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1981
- Subject:
- African Americans--1980-1990
Memorial rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta
Suits (Clothing)--1980-1990
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta
Municipal officials and employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta University Center (Ga.)
Brown, Lee P. (Lee Patrick), 1937-
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Lee P. Brown, Public Safety Commissioner for the City of Atlanta, at a memorial service for slain children associated with the Atlanta child murder cases, held at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on the Morehouse College campus in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children case pertains to a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia from 1979-1981 during which 29 African-American children and young adults were killed. In 1981 Police arrested Wayne Bertram Williams and in 1982 Williams was found guilty of 2 of the 29 murders. The remaining murders were closed, although the case was opened in 2005, and re closed in 2006. In 2007 a DNA test was done on evidence from the case but results were considered inconclusive, and Williams' sentence was not changed. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.285.011
ahc101285011.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/679
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:679/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:
-
