Roosevelt
Oct 25, 2021

Bo Richmond Photograph Collection

Roosevelt "Bo" Richmond was an amateur photographer from Alabama. He photographed events, buildings, people, and documented the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This collection contains photographs of people, events and places in Atlanta, Georgia. Included are photographs of Henry "Hank" Aaron, Hosea Williams at the sanitation workers strike, Jesse Jackson at the March Against Repression, Martin Luther King, Jr. at the barber shop and photos of the funeral procession for Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.

For:
  • Subjects = African American churches
Coretta Scott King walks down the aisle during Home Coming Day at West Hunter Baptist Church.
Ralph Abernathy walks down the aisle during Home Coming Day at West Hunter Baptist Church.
Churchgoers attend a service during Home Coming Day at West Hunter Baptist Church.
Exterior view of the West Hunter Baptist Church with a sign announcing Home Coming Day and Coretta King with churchgoers outside.
Bo Richmond Photograph Collection
A sign announcing Home Coming Day and Coretta King hangs above the entrance of West Hunter Baptist Church with churchgoers outside.
Bo Richmond Photograph Collection
Martin Luther King Jr. sits in a chair at a barbershop.
Bo Richmond Photograph Collection
Exterior of Union Baptist Church (now Atlanta Berean Seventh-Day Adventist Church) as seen from across the street.
Bo Richmond Photograph Collection
Exterior of the Big Bethel AME Church on Auburn Avenue. Written on accompanying document: Big Bethel Auburn Avenue.
Bo Richmond Photograph Collection