Photograph
Betsy Flood Victims
| A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend Roosevelt Johnson stands in the center of the group. Walter and Elizabeth Rogers, also flood victims, stand in the back row. |
| Image ID: | 68872 |
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| Creation Date: | 09 10 1965 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
| City: | New Orleans |
| County: | |
| State: | Louisiana |
| Collection Name: | Walter and Elizabeth Rogers papers, 1939-1974 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH Mss 377 |
| Original Dimensions: | 4.75 x 3.75 inches |
| Clothing and dress |
| Floods |
| African Americans |
| Children and adults |
| Indoor photography |
| Church buildings |
| Clergy |
| Signs and signboards |
| Civil rights |
| Homelessness |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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