Original press photograph of a 1959 protest at Florida A&M University

by Civil Rights Movement, African American history

$225 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., 1959-1966. Vintage press photograph showing Florida A&M University FAMU student protesters in the days leading up to the important Tallahassee Rape Case. May 5, 1959, date stamp and a newspaper clipping on the verso.Taken in Florida in early May of 1959, the photograph shows FAMU students protesting the kidnapping and rape of a Black student by four white men. The protests drew widespread media attention, and this, combined with

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