Black Women's Coalition Meeting

Collection:

Boyd Lewis Photographs

Creator:

Lewis, Boyd, 1944-

Date:

1973

URL at Partner site:

http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/byd/id/1837

DLG URL:

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/geh_byd_1837

Subject:

African Americans--1970-1980, Women--1970-1980, Activists--Georgia--Atlanta, Meetings--Georgia--Atlanta, Political campaigns, Politics and government--Georgia--Atlanta, Audiences--Georgia--Atlanta, Atlanta Housing Authority, and LaBord, Susie

Spatial coverage:

United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798

Medium:

black-and-white photographs

Description:

View of Susie LaBord, a social activist and member of the Atlanta Housing Authority, chastising Atlanta mayoral candidates (not pictured) for not answering questions asked at a meeting of the Balck Women's Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia.||Susie LaBord was a social activist who worked on behalf of the urban poor. She served as the Grady Homes Tenant Association President. In 1972, she became the first resident of an Atlanta public housing project to serve as a voting member of the Atlanta Housing Authority. She also served on boards and committees for United Way, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Holding Institution:

Atlanta History Center

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/