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Listen: The Blues ProgramCivil rights demonstrators and protestors on Monroe St. in Tallahassee, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2008- 5, Photographic collection, ca 1962-1974; Box 24a
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Racism
Protest movements--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Political participation
African Americans--Political activity
African American political activists
African American social reformers--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
African American civil rights workers--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Civil rights movements--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Physical Description
General Note
Photographed just north of Park Ave. in front of the Florida Theater during sit-in demonstrations at McCrory's and Woolworth's department stores in downtown Tallahassee.
Biographical Note
Richard Parks operated a portrait studio in Tallahassee from 1962 to 1974. First called Richard Parks-Evon Streetman Photography, the studio was later renamed Richard Parks Photography after Streetman moved to Gainesville about 1965.
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