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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Attica Memorial Foundation/ACLU Prison Reform Conference
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Ex-convicts
Beards
Public speaking--Georgia--Atlanta
Microphone
Clothing and dress--1970-1980
Cigarettes
Smoking--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights
Prison reform--Georgia
Attica Memorial Foundation
American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia
Giles, Emory
Guerrero, Gene - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Gene Guerrero (left), the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia, and Emory Giles (right), a prison reform advocate, speaking at a prison reform conference in Atlanta, Georgia, held jointly by the Attica Memorial Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Emory Giles was an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York at the time of a bloody prison riot in 1971. He later became an activist for prison reform and founded the Attica Memorial Foundation. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.298.005
ahc101298005.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/720
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:720/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: