Mothers Arrested in School Integration Protest

Mothers Arrested in School Integration Protest

Photograph

Mothers Arrested in School Integration Protest

1964
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 × 9 1/2 in. (15.2 × 24.1 cm)
Paper: 8 1/8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.6 × 25.3 cm)
Gift of Steven and Claudia Schwartz, 2024
2025.0010.0046
Inscriptions Printed above image: (NY20) NEW YORK, Oct. 7, — MOTHERS ARRESTED IN SCHOOL INTEGRATION PROTEST — Police list names \ of defiant mothers in auditorium of P.S. 149 in Jackson Heights section of Queens, New York, today \ after they staged a sit-in for third day in protest an integration program which transferred their \ children away from their neighborhood school. Near riot broke out when they were being loaded in \ bus to be taken to court. (AP Wirephoto) (f41056str) 1964 (See AP Wire Story)
Inscribed in blue ink on verso, T: D.N. Oct. 7, 1964 \ Segregation Jackson Heights, N.Y. \ 98
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BLC: CVL-NY-021
Printed in black on applied label on verso, TRC: rao 919
Stamped in red on verso, TR and C: FASCIMILE USED \ NOTICE \ This picture is the property of the Associated \ Press and may be used only for the purposes of \ reproduction when authorized by the owner, it may \ not be syndicated, rented or loaned, or used for \ advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade. \ The following credit must be printed under \ each reproduction of this picture: \ ASSOCIATED PRESS \ WIREPHOTO \ [illegible]
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