- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- EOA Dedication
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1974
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Dedications--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1970-1980
Automobile service stations--Georgia--Atlanta
Clothing and dress--1970-1980
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
American Oil Company
Economic assistance, Domestic--Georgia--Atlanta
Greenlea, Charles W., 1916-1992
Economic Opportunity Atlanta, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia Avenue, 33.7369194, -84.3881094
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Mechanicsville, 33.739, -84.39854 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Pete Greenlea (foreground, right), a civil rights activist and staff member of Economic Opportunity Atlanta (EOA) and other unidentified individuals at the dedication of a new AMOCO service station, built with assistance from EOA, on Georgia Avenue in the Mechanicsville neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
Charles W. "Pete" Greenlea (1916-1992) was a civil rights and neighborhood activist. He was the co-founder of Summerhill Neighborhood, Inc., an organization dedicated to the revitalization of the Summerhill neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. Greenlea served as the president of the organization until his death in 1992. Previously, he had served as the executive director of the Atlanta chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1948 to 1968. After leaving his post at the NAACP, he was the editor at the Atlanta Daily World and worked for Economic Opportunity Atlanta. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.387.016
ahc101387016.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/897
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:897/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:
-
