Document Type

Image

Photograph of Courtney Brothers Tarred and Feathered

Authors

Author Unknown

Publication Date

1-1-1919

Abstract/ Summary

Photograph of two Black students Samuel and Roger Courtney tarred and feathered While at the time this incident was described as "hazing" incident carried out by University of Maine a modern interpretation, by scholars such as Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, was that this was actually a racist attack.

Sieber has featured this incident in her, Visualizing the Red Summer database and archive on the topic of the Red Summer of 1919, a term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year.

More information on this incident can be elsewhere in this collection.

Comments

Photograph scanned from Seth Pinkham Papers, MS 1516, Box 2, Folder 3.

Identifier

Racial Justice_Pinkham Papers_2021_01_11

Repository Citation

Unknown, Author, "Photograph of Courtney Brothers Tarred and Feathered" (1919). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 154.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/154

Version

publisher's version of the published document

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