WEB_Du_Bois_PIC_hearing_reduced_Resolution.jpg (356 × 279 pixels, file size: 29 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
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Picture of W. E. B. Du Bois attending his federal court hearing in 1951 on charges of being a Communist sympathizer during McCarthyism era. |
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| Source |
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/exhibits/dubois/page11.htm This image is from the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Du Bois collection. Their photo archive contains a good collection of photos, but it does not identify the copyright holders. Efforts were made to search for the image in other contexts, to find the copyright holder, but the efforts were not successful. Therefore, the copyright holder of this image is unknown. |
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Entire image |
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Yes, this image has been reduced so it is only 1/4 as large as the original image |
| Purpose of use |
To illustrate government persecution of Du Bois. |
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This is the _only_ image available that illustrates the arrest/trial/hearings in any way |
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(1) This is an historic image. (2) there are no free alternatives. (3) the image has been reduced in resolution 4x; (4) the image is used only in one WP article to illustrate a critical event in U.S. African-American history; and (5) this image is famous: it is described in detail by Du Bois's principal biographer, David Lewis, on page 691 of his W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography (pub 2009). |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of W. E. B. Du Bois//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WEB_Du_Bois_PIC_hearing_reduced_Resolution.jpgtrue | |
Licensing
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| current | 20:28, 1 October 2017 | | 356 × 279 (29 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
| 06:16, 17 November 2011 | No thumbnail | 488 × 383 (69 KB) | Noleander (talk | contribs) | {{Non-free use rationale |Article = W. E. B. Du Bois |Description = Picture of W. E. B. Du Bois attending his federal court hearing on charges of being a Communist sympathizer during McCarthyism era. |Source = Univ. of |
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