- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Scripto Factory Employees
- Creator:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library
- Publisher:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1953-04-16
- Subject:
- History
Archaeology - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Between 1931 and 1977, Black female employees at the Scripto factory in Atlanta organized against unfair wages and a discriminatory work environment. Their activism was a precursor to the civil rights movement.
Black and white photograph of five women working behind an assembly line at the Scripto, Inc. factory on Piedmont Road in Atlanta, dated 4/16/1953. A male janitor is sweeping in the bottom right corner of the image. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/the-scripto-strikes/scripto-strikes_003/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/lane/id/12667/rec/8
- Original Collection:
- Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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