Untitled [Four negro students who quietly broke VA historic barriers of school segregation] (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

1959
American
Photographs
Works On Paper
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 7 × 9 1/4 in. (17.78 × 23.5 cm)
Image: 7 × 8 3/4 in. (17.78 × 22.23 cm)
2015.458
Not on view
Ferrotyped
Stamp in purple ink on print verso: "REFERENCE / Feb 6 '59 / N.E.A." Typed label within upper margin of photographic image: "WAP-020202-2/2/59 - ARLINGTON, VA - Four Negro students who quietly broke Virginia's historic/ barriers of school segregation 2/2 are shown leaving the home of Ronald Deskins, one of the/ four, to enter previously all-White Stratford Junior High School. LtoR: Gloria Thompson;/ Ronald Deskins; Lance D. Newman; and Michael G. Jones. Newman is 13, the others 12. All are in/ the 7th grade. UPI TELEPHOTO grg".
Inscribed in graphite on print verso: "A90729"
Gift of Richard and Andrea M. Kremer
©artist or artist’s estate

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