- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Cross burns as KKK clansmen watch, Stone Mountain, Georgia, August 1980.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Mahan, Bill (Photographer)
- Date of Original:
- 1980-08
- Subject:
- Racism
Hate crimes
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702 - Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Newspaper caption attached to print verso:"Klan Rally: About 200 people joined the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain Saturday night for the Klan's 49th annual rally and cross-burning. Imperial Wizard James Venable, a Decatur attorney, told those attending the rally that they should work to defeat President Carter this fall, because he has accommodated blacks and recently said that the Klan should be buried." Second newspaper attached to print verso: "A cross burns as Ku Klux Klansmen watch. Cross-burning was orginally used by the Klan in America to terrorize minorities." Photographer: Bill Mahan. Photo stamped on verso: August 30 1980; August 31 1980; and June 25 1992.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/819
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:819/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: AJCP553-079a, 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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