Image Number

• JB00159

Year

• 1971

Date Note

• Photographed on July 31, 1971.

Series Title

• General: John Buckley collection
• Specific: John Buckley collection Series/Collection number: N2008- 14, Photographic collection, 1969-1976 ; Box 1, M000013-C

General Note

• Edward Allen Johnson Jr., 19, was arrested on June 2, 1970 for the May 18, 1970 firebombing of the Tallahassee Furniture Company building. He was a member of the Tallahassee branch of the Malcolm X United Liberation Front (established in Tallahassee in early 1970). The group held numerous public demonstrations to free him, including a 7-day conference at Florida A&M University in September 1970. Spokesmen for the Liberation Front often referred to Johnson as a "political prisoner."

Rights

• 

Biography Note

• Buckley's photography focused primarily on civil rights demonstrations, anti-war rallies, anti-nuclear demonstrations, and women's rights demonstrations.

Photographer/Personal Author

• Buckley, John Charles, 1945-2008

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.

Subject Term

• Political activists
• African Americans--Political activity
• Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
• Civil rights movements--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
• African American men--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
• Political prisoners

Geographic Term

• Leon County (Fla.)
• Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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