Sign ("Dictatorship") on tree, Powhatan County, Va., 1962-1963

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Title	Sign ("Dictatorship") on tree, Powhatan County, Va., 1962-1963
Date of Photograph	1962-1963
County	Powhatan County (Va.)
Description	Sign on tree on U.S. route 60 in Powhatan County, Va., on south side of the highway about two miles from the Cumberland County line. It followed an order by Federal District Judge John Butzner to admit six African Americans to two Powhatan County Public Schools and also enjoining county officials from closing schools to avoid desegregation.
Subject	posters
Topical Subject	Posters -- Virginia -- Powhatan County -- History -- Pictorial works; Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Powhatan County -- History
Geographic Subject	Powhatan County (Va.)
Local Genre	photograph
Photographer	Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935-
LC Classification	LA380.P74
Original Image Medium	Black and white negative
Original Image Size	6 x 9 cm.
Type	Stillimage
Digital File Type	image/tiff
Date Digitized	2009-04
Digitization Process	Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, using Photoshop CS4, at 8-bit grayscale, 1200 ppi.
Rights	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Contributor	James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Collection	Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
Original File Name	pec081c.tif

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