Segregationist Lester Maddox, Waving at Center, Leads March

Collection Artwork

Artist

Unrecorded artist

Title

Segregationist Lester Maddox, Waving at Center, Leads March

Creation date

1965

Materials

gelatin silver print

Publisher

Associated Press

Person depicted

Lester Maddox (Atlanta, Georgia, 1915 – 2003, Atlanta, Georgia)

Dimensions

paper size: 6 7/8 x 8 in.
image size: 6 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.

Credit Line

The Jack Shear Collection of Photography at the Tang Teaching Museum

Place of Creation

photographed in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North America

Accession Number

2018.38.487

Object Type

Photographs

Marks

Stamped in black ink, verso, upper left: MADDOX, LESTER
Inscribed, verso, upper left: GROUP5[?]
Stamped in blue ink, verso, upper center: ’65 APR 26 AM 7:29
Stamped in purple ink, verso, upper left: APR 26 1965
Typewritten newspaper clipping, adhered, verso, center: [lower portion of image visible] / AP Wirephoto / SEGREGATIONIST LESTER MADDOX, WAVING AT CENTER, LEADS MARCH / More than 1,000 demonstrated for “private property rights” in Atlanta, Ga., Sunday.
Stamped in purple ink, verso, center, on top of newspaper clipping: APR 26 1965
Handwritten inscriptions, verso, center, behind newspaper clipping, illegible
Inscribed in red ink, verso, center: 17 [encircled]

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