Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2020.002.0031 |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Description |
Four Emery Street School students walking hand-in-hand down a street towards the photographer. The young women are flanked by two young men. The young man at far right may be Walter S. Stokes, Jr. Two teenage girls are walking on the sidewalk at far left. Emery Street School was the sole educational facility for African American children grades K-12 in Dalton and Whitfield County until it was integrated into the Dalton Public School system in 1968. |
Date |
1947 |
Search Terms |
African Americans Dalton, Georgia Education Friends Race relations School Segregation Students Teenagers |
Accession number |
2020.002 |
Collection |
Staff Donation--Walter S. Stokes Jr. Collection |