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- Title
- Negroes pray for justice.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-27052 NEGROES PRAY FOR JUSTICE ALBANY, Ga. -- Negro demonstrators held a prayer meeting in front of the Albany (Ga.) City Hall to appeal for a just verdict for 11 Freedom Riders on trial there. Police form a cordon in the rear to forestall any violence. The Negro demonstrators, whose number sometimes rose to 700, held mass meetings in the Shiloh Baptist church. So far about 480 Negroes have been arrested for their participation in the demonstrations. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (UPI-NYC-12C-61-NM)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1961, circa December 17, 1961
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--United States., Freedom Rides, 1961., Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany., Prayer--Georgia--Albany., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Trials--Georgia--Albany.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Georgia, Albany., Georgia, Albany., Georgia, Albany., United States, Albany (Ga.), North and Central America--United States--Georgia--Dougherty--Albany
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. P-27052; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-27052
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:358340