- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Rally Before the Augusta Riot
- Creator:
- Augusta University Special Collections and Archives
- Date of Original:
- 1970
- Subject:
- Arts--Georgia
Culture - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484
- Medium:
- visual art (art genre)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- On May 11, 1970 protestors massed outside an Augusta municipal building to protest the killing of Charles Oatman, a developmentally disabled Black teenager, in the Richmond County Jail. In 2021 the Department of Justice, through its Cold Case initiative, reopened its investigation into the deaths of Oatman and six other Black Augustans killed in the ensuing protests.
Black and white photograph of a group of protestors with police facing them in the foreground. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/augusta-riot/augusta_riot_001/
- Rights Holder:
- Reese Library Augusta University
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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