Racial Violence Victim, Birmingham, AL (Primary Title)

Anonymous (Artist)

ca. 1960
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 10 × 8 1/16 in. (25.4 × 20.48 cm)
Image: 9 1/4 × 6 5/8 in. (23.5 × 16.83 cm)
2016.149
Not on view
Typed label within lower margin of photographic image: "BM3) Birmingham, Ala., May 14 – Racial Violence Vic-/tim – James Peck, 46, New York City, who was beaten at/ the Birmingham bus station yesterday. A member of a/ group of “freedom riders”, he was attacked as they/ fought to break bus station racial barriers at Bir-/mingham. He was treated at a hospital and released./ At least three other persons were beaten in scatter-“.
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment

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