Content Description
41 prints, some mounted, and two sixth-plate tintypes. Photographs show Walls family, 1880s to 1973. Assorted photographs of African Americans, family pictures, 1870-1973. Murray Atkins Walls (1900-1993) was active in the integration struggle in Louisville and a leader in the open housing campaign and the effort to integrate the Louisville Free Public Library. Her husband John H. Walls was a prominent Louisville physician who established well-baby clinics in Louisville's African American neighborhoods. He also served on the governing board of Louisville's Red Cross (Community) Hospital and on the board of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Sixty photographs and two tintypes document various members of the Atkins and Walls families and some of the activities of Murray A. Walls.
Acquisition Type
Gift
Restrictions Apply
No
Dates
- circa 1866-1979
Creator
- Walls, Murray B. Atkins (Creator, Person)
Extent
62 photographs (1 box)
- African American physicians -- Indiana Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- African American physicians -- Kentucky -- Louisville Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
- Negatives Subject Source: Thesaurus For Graphic Materials
- Photographs Subject Source: Tgm (For Genre/Format Terms)
- Race relations Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tintypes Subject Source: Tgm (For Genre/Format Terms)
- Walls, John H.