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On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church for preliminary ceremnoies and then marched en masse to the cemetry for ceremonies there; The part of the group is shown entering the cemetry.

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Title
On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church for preliminary ceremnoies and then marched en masse to the cemetry for ceremonies there; The part of the group is shown entering the cemetry.
Additional title: [African Americans lined up at gates to enter cemetry, 1938.]
Names
United States. Farm Security Administration (Sponsor)
Lee, Russell, 1903-1986 (Photographer)
Collection

Farm Security Administration Collection

Louisiana.

Russell Lee.

Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Farm Security Administration Collection
Topics
Louisiana
All Saints' Day
Cemeteries
African Americans
Gates
Queues
New Roads (La.)
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Original negative # : 11884-M3.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 photographic print : Gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in.
Gelatin silver prints
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b22609769
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b52b72c0-c612-012f-ac9f-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church for preliminary ceremnoies and then marched en masse to the cemetry for ceremonies there; The part of the group is shown entering the cemetry." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f96a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church for preliminary ceremnoies and then marched en masse to the cemetry for ceremonies there; The part of the group is shown entering the cemetry. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f96a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church for preliminary ceremnoies and then marched en masse to the cemetry for ceremonies there; The part of the group is shown entering the cemetry.