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  • TitleCampaign against juvenile delinquency
  • Call NumberCHUR_0023
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryFour Black men in suits, two of whom are shaking hands, at church banner-draped podium on top of which is a very large book (Bible?). On podium: initials G. M. P., cross and crown. Caption: "Campaign against juvelile delinquincy--Religious leaders in Bedford-Stuyvesant are campaigning for united action against the juvenile delinquincy problem. Speakers at a mass meeting in the Greater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Herkimer St. and Kingston Ave., were, left to right, Louis J. Warner, vice president of the State Missionary Baptist Sunday School Convention; the Rev. O. D. Dempsey, Municipal Court Justice Lloyd I. Herzka and the Rev. James E. Gay, pastor of the church."
  • Date1955
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 9 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date stamped: Jan. 18, 1955; caption dated: Jan. 21, 1955; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Retouched; grease pencil cropping marks.
  • CreatorBing Studio
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectGreater Mount Pleasant Baptist Church ; Baptist church buildings [lctgm] ; Blacks ; Juvenile delinquency ; Meetings [lctgm] ; Handshaking [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBedford-Stuyvesant (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.