Leesburg Stockade in Georgia to have historical marker
https://www.gpbnews.org/post/girls-imprisoned-civil-rights-work-get-historical-marker
Fifty five years after I crawled up to the small stockade to photograph 14 imprisoned teenage civil rights protesters the State of Georgia will erect a highway historic marker honoring the sacrifices of the high school students. What these young girls did changed Georgia forever.
This is wonderful. We need to push to immortalize these heroes before we lose this generation. The photos were the start to keeping the story alive and a monument to the truth is a great next step.
So glad to see this story but then was very saddened to see the story about three Ole Miss Students gleefully posing with guns in front of a shot up memorial to Emit Till a beautiful boy who was murdered for being black. Their University offered the weakens possible condemnation using words like inappropriate. What about words like cruel, bewilderingly heartless and demonstrating a total lack of humanity. They have had to repair this monument many times already.
Thank you Danny, for sharing your powerful photograph of the “Leesburg Stockade Girls” heroic teens on the frontline in the fight for American democracy) you made in 1963.