Photo, Print, Drawing Scottsboro youths cheered on arrival here / photo by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
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Title
- Scottsboro youths cheered on arrival here / photo by ACME Newspictures, Inc.
Summary
- Photograph shows Samuel Leibowitz, pulling Eugene Williams and Olen Montgomery, through the street as the police holds back the excited crowd.
Created / Published
- 1937 July 26.
Headings
- - Leibowitz, Samuel S.,--1893-1978
- - Williams, Eugene,--1918
- - Montgomery, Olen
- - African Americans--Men--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940
- - Liberty--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940
Headings
- Photographic prints--1930-1940.
Genre
- Photographic prints--1930-1940
Notes
- - Date stamped on verso: July 26 1937.
- - ACME Photograph.
- - Caption on verso: Here's the tumultous scene in Penn Station, New York City, July 26th, as Attorney Samuel Leibowitz and the four colored Scottsboro defendants who were freed largely through his efforts, arrived. Three other defendants are starting prison sentences in Alabama today. Leibowitz is in the center, (wearing polka dot tie) holding the arms of Eugene Williams, beside Williams in overalls, is Olen Montgomery. They are hurrying through the crowd of 3,000 sympathizers who were on hand to greet them.
- - New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
- - Title from news agency caption on item.
- - Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Medium
- 1 photographic print.
Call Number/Physical Location
- NYWTS - BIOG--Williams, Eugene--Negro [item] [P&P]
Source Collection
- New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- ds 13160 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.13160
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2019630517
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ds-13160 (digital file from original photograph)
Rights Advisory
- Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html
Online Format
- image