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Photograph of the second anniversary of the Attica Uprising

1973

Attica Correctional Facility, Attica, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Photographic print of the second anniversary of the Attica Uprising. Two men are pictured standing in front of the Attica Correctional Facility building, with a banner behind them reading "[W]E DEMAND: / -DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST THE / ATTICA [BRO]THERS!" with two more bullet points illegible because behind the two men. The man in the background (thought to be Frank Smith) is wearing a white under shirt with an unbuttoned long sleeve shirt over top, with a straw hat on and a mustache. The man in the foreground (thought to be New York Assemblyman Arthur O. Eve) is speaking and pointing back at the man on the left with his PR arm, wearing a suit jacket and tie, has mustache and goatee. "SS" is written vertically in the bottom left corner of the front of the photograph.

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Catalog reference: 2014.58.5

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