Associated Press Forcible Ejection

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GLC#
GLC09717.08-View header record
Type
Images
Date
16 June 1966
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Forcible Ejection
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
1 photograpn : b&w Height: 14 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement

One wirephoto entitled, "Forcible Ejection," taken by the Associated Press dated June 16, 1966. Image is of
Reverend Virgil Wood protesting against segregation in Boston public schools. Wire transfer information states that Reverend Wood rushed the stage during a graduation. He was protesting against Louise Day Hicks, Boston school committee member and integration critic, who was handing diplomas to a graduating class. He shouted, 'If you were in a synagogue, would you have invited Hitler?"

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