- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Volunteer, Rodney Johnson, removing a welcome sign from the barred entrance to the Imperial Hotel, where the city's homeless had been living for two weeks, Atlanta, Georgia, July 3, 1990.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Ross, Dwight, Jr.
- Date of Original:
- 1990-07-03
- Subject:
- Homelessness
Poverty
Homeless persons--Housing
Homeless persons--Civil rights
Demonstration
Abandoned buildings
Urban homesteading
Imperial Hotel (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- color negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Inscribed on negative envelope: "Homeless move out of Imperial Hotel to 234 Memorial Dr. Homeless residence, 85 people. Captain W.F. Derrick moustache, Officer J.E. Harrison glasses, Lieutenant H.L. Johnson. Reverend Tony Negron, Vineland, NJ and Prophet Edward L. Standford Jr. Lieutenant C.R. Ables, black man. Ms. Sandra Enos receiving intercessory prayer. On roof with megaphone, Ed Loring. Hug - Denson Phillips, Ms. Marcella Maguire. Volunteer Dick Rustay open door, Holy Innocents support." Accompanying notes: "Homeless and others who had been living at the Imperial Hotel for the last two weeks voluntarily boarded busses Tuesday morning as a threat of arrest forced them out of their temporary shelter.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/5238
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:5238/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCNS1990-07-03u, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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