Description
Photograph showing demonstrators gathered in Atlanta, Georgia, to demand the desegregation of the Atlanta police force in 1947. Several of the demonstrators are holding signs. The signs read: "For Negro Police"; "105,000 Negro Citizens Rate at Least 1 Negro Police"; and "Negro Police Will Aid in Law & Order."Record Contributed By
New Georgia EncyclopediaRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Men
- African American Women
- African American Women Civil Rights Workers
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Atlanta (Ga.)
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Workers
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Employment
- Georgia
- Men
- Police
- Race Discrimination
- Race Relations
- Racism
- Segregation
- Signs And Signboards
- Social Conditions
- Women
- Women Civil Rights Workers