Associated Press Civil Rights Demonstrators Block Bridge

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GLC#
GLC09733.05-View header record
Type
Images
Date
7 March 1964
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
Civil Rights Demonstrators Block Bridge
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
1 photograph : b&w Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 26.3 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Civil Rights Movement The Sixties

One photograph entitled, "Civil Rights Demonstrators Block Bridge," taken by Associated Press dated March 7, 1964. Image is of five demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sitting in the middle of the road blocking the Manhattan approach to the Triborough Bridge. CORE dumped garbage on the bridge in protest of conditions in East Harlem schools.

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