Civil Rights in a Northern City: Philadelphia > Columbia Avenue Riots

Campsite for Poor People's March

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Title

Date

1968-05-12

Photographer

DiMarco, Salvatore C.

Description

Four small Negro boys play on the Northeast cornrer of 22nd & Columbia Avenue. where the marcher[s] from the Poor People's March will camp out, while they are in Philadelphia. The marchers have a rally palnned at Independence Hall for Tuesday afternoon.""

Subjects

Vacant lands

Demonstrations

Civil rights

Geographic Subject

Philadelphia (Pa.)

North Philadelphia

Columbia Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Notes

With clipping

Format

Image/jp2

Type

Photographs

Rights

This material is subject to copyright law and is made available for private study, scholarship, and research purposes only. For access to the original or a high resolution reproduction, and for permission to publish, please contact Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center, scrc@temple.edu, 215-204-8257.

Contact

scrc@temple.edu

Folder

Streets (Name)--Columbia Avenue

Digital Collection

George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Photographs

Civil Rights in a Northern City

Columbia Avenue Riots

Repository

Temple University Libraries, Urban Archives

Digital Publisher

Philadelphia PA: Temple University Libraries

Identifier

P708212B