Civil rights demonstrators and protestors on Monroe St. in Tallahassee, Florida.

Title

• Civil rights demonstrators and protestors on Monroe St. in Tallahassee, Florida.

Image Number

• RP06111

Year

• 1960

Date Note

• Photographed on March 12, 1960.

Series Title

• General: Richard Parks collection.
• Specific: Richard Parks collection N2008- 5, Photographic collection, ca 1962-1974; Box 24a

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.

Biography 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.

Photographer/Personal Author

• Parks, Richard.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 60 mm.

Subject Term

• Prejudices
• Racism
• Protest movements--Florida--Tallahassee
• Political participation
• African Americans--Political activity
• African American political activists
• African American social reformers--Florida--Tallahassee
• African American civil rights workers--Florida--Tallahassee
• African Americans--Civil rights
• Civil rights demonstrations--Florida--Tallahassee
• Civil rights movements--Florida--Tallahassee

Geographic Term

• Leon County (Fla.)
• Monroe Street (Tallahassee, Fla.)

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