- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Sanitation workers strike supporters marching on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, March 28, 1970. Photograph is part of a series labeled "Strike march."
- Creator:
- Coffin, Tom
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1970-03-28
- Subject:
- Strikes and lockouts
Sanitation workers--Labor unions
Demonstration
Picketing
AFSCME. Local 1644 (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Most protesters carry printed sign that reads, "City employees. AFSCME AFL-CIO Local 1644 on strike for justice-dignity." Three women with a child: woman on left carries a hand-lettered sigh that starts with "Come on Sam..."; woman next to her carries a hand-lettered sign that reads "Lay their money down, Sam"; the woman next to the child wears the printed sign; the child's hand-lettered sign reads "Where was Sam when I did not eat?" -- he holds an inflated animal toy. "Sam" is Atlanta mayor Sam Massell.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10514
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/GSB:10514/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: V003-700328-A18, Tom Coffin Photographs. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Tom Coffin Photographs
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
