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Civil Rights Demonstrators and Ku Klux Klan Members Share the Same Sidewalk, Atlanta

Unknown Photographer1964/1964

High Museum of Art

High Museum of Art
Atlanta, GA, United States

The Ku Klux Klan was picketing a newly desegregated hotel a few doors down from a segregated restaurant where a group of young civil rights workers were protesting. The lettering on a sign held by one of the young demonstrators, bearing the slogan “Atlanta’s Image is a Fraud”, has been enhanced by newsroom staff, presumably to read more effectively in newspaper print. Reflected in reverse in the storefront window behind the protestors is the signage for a Cary Grant movie being screened in a theater across the street.

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  • Title: Civil Rights Demonstrators and Ku Klux Klan Members Share the Same Sidewalk, Atlanta
  • Creator: Unknown Photographer
  • Creator's gender: M
  • Date: 1964/1964
  • Provenance: High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Purchase with funds from Sandra Anderson Baccus in loving memory of Lloyd Tevis Baccus, M.D.
  • Type: Photographs
  • Rights: Photo © 2015 High Museum of Art
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 8 1/2 × 11 13/16 inches
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