About This Item

  • Call NumberBCMS_0011_0004
  • Title[Boy marches in Operation Clean Sweep]
  • SummaryA boy participates in Operation Clean Sweep, a demonstration led by Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to draw attention to Bedford-Stuyvesant's insufficient garbage pick-up. He carries a sign that says, "Give us a first class Bedford-Stuyvesant."
  • Date1962-09-15
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 4 x 6 inches
  • Genreblack-and-white photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger
  • SubjectProtest and social movements ; Civil rights ; African Americans--Civil rights ; Sanitation ; Bedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.) ; Congress of Racial Equality
  • CollectionRioghan Kirchner Civil Rights in Brooklyn Collection
  • Finding AidView the finding aid
  • PlaceBrooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsRioghan Kirchner Civil Rights in Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright Owner[unknown]
  • FolderRioghan Kirchner Civil Rights in Brooklyn Collection ; Box 1, Folder 4