- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- The crowded auditorium at a Sibley Commission hearing, 1960
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Wilson, Bill (William Bryan), 1914-1993
- Date of Original:
- 1960-03-16
- Subject:
- School integration
Public schools
Segregation in education
Georgia. General Assembly. Committee on Schools - People:
- Sibley, John A. (John Adams), 1888-1986
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Coffee County, 31.54927, -82.8492
United States, Georgia, Coffee County, Douglas, 31.50881, -82.84987 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Printed on envelope: "Schools, public, Georgia. Sibley Commission 1960. Ga. State School Study Comm." Caption: "Coffee County Gymnasium Crowded for School Hearing. Douglas- Residents of the eighth congressional district crowded into the high school gymnasium here Monday to express their sentiments on public schools to the Sibley committee. Segregation-at-all cost forces outvoted local option advocates 4-3 in the hearing. The district was the second of five polls indicating willingness to close schools to preserve segregation. Staff photo: Bill Wilson"
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/13320
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:13320/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Items may be used for scholarship, educational, and personal use. Additional uses will require permission of the rights holder.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCP298-020o, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive;
Photographic Collections; - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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