About 300 Persons Turn Out For Rights Rally And March Here
Item
- Title
- About 300 Persons Turn Out For Rights Rally And March Here
- Description
- This newspaper clipping describes a Freedom Rally sponsored by the Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC) of over 300 community members marching from City Hall to the First Method Church near the University of Michigan’s Central Campus. This event, which featured John Lewis, was to precipitate the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom that would take place the following day in Washington D.C.. At the start of the event, the SNCC was joined by demonstrators of the Ann Arbor Fair Housing Association - CORE who were continuing their advocacy for fair housing.
- People Represented in the Record
- Rev. Albert Cleage
- John Lewis
- Creator(s) of the Record
- Unknown
- Annotation Creator
- August 27, 1963
- Location
- This photo was taken in the street outside of 413 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
- Medium
- Paper
- Type
- Newspaper clipping
- Subject
- Mapping Resistance and Community Action
- Rights
- This digitized copy is generously provided for research purposes by the Ann Arbor District Library, the institution charged with overseeing the care of the digital item. Copyright for this document is retained by the Ann Arbor News.
- Rights Holder
- Ann Arbor News
- Source
- Ann Arbor District Library
- Bibliographic Citation
- About 300 Persons Turn Out For Rights Rally And March Here. (n.d.). Ann Arbor District Library. Retrieved December 1, 2021, from https://aadl.org/aa_news_19630827-about_300_persons_turn_out_for_rights_rally_and_march_here.
