People picket against the Woolworth Company's practice of segregation
- Title:
- People picket against the Woolworth Company's practice of segregation
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Labor and Work
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 1963-04-20
- ID Number:
- 5780pb4f1c
- Collection Number:
- 5780 P
- File Name:
- KCL05780pb004f01c.jpg
- Work Type:
- photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- gelatin silver prints
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights
Local
Picketing
Placards
Women
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union - Description:
- Action shot from just ahead of a picket line. The picketers are all Black women, dressed neatly in skirt suits, with handbags and high heels on; most are wearing glasses. They are walking toward the camera on a city sidewalk in from of a row of shops. Each person carries a picket sign reading "Woolworth practices discrimination in the South. Don't Patronize! Local 62, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, AFL-CIO." The woman at the front of the line is looking directly into the camera with a serious expression, while the women behind her are looking in different directions.
- Notes:
- "Hundreds of ILGWU members from New York City locals marched on picket lines April 20 to protest segregation at stores in Southern cities, particularly Birmingham, Alabama."
- Cite As:
- ILGWU Photographs, 1835-1992 #5780 P. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- ILGWU Photographs, 1835-1992
- Box:
- 4
- Folder:
- 1
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
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