Democracy in action

Democracy in action
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Title: Democracy in action
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Caption: "Democracy in action--Manual Training High School students [sitting around table] meet with Louis A. Schuker, principal, to discuss school-community problems. Participating are, left to right, Helen Holmberg, Arista secretary; Robert Wood, G. O. president; Melvyn D. Haywoode, senior Arista president; Patricia Mills, secretary; Frank Baldassare, chairman of high school group, National Conference of Christians and Jews; Jacki Mills, editor-in-chief, Manual Weekly, and Mary Jane Driskill, senior class president." The school, located at 237 Seventh Avenue, changed its name in 1960 to John Jay High School and its name changed again in 2001 to Secondary School for Law Journalism and Research.

Date: 1954
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Creator: Geller, Jules, photographer.
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
On verso: date stamped: Dec. 7, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Schools
Subject: Manual Training High School (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
High school students
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: SCHL 1074