Kasper Sheared: Racial agitator John Kasper gets his hair clipped down to the skin at the Davidson County Workhouse today in preparation for starting six-month term. Charles E. Brown wields the clippers. Kasper was sentenced for inciting to riot during the start of Nashville's public school desegregation in 1957. United States Supreme Court recently upheld the sentence, January 19
Photographer once known
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Kasper Sheared: Racial agitator John Kasper gets his hair clipped down to the skin at the Davidson County Workhouse today in preparation for starting six-month term. Charles E. Brown wields the clippers. Kasper was sentenced for inciting to riot during the start of Nashville's public school desegregation in 1957. United States Supreme Court recently upheld the sentence, January 19
Artist/Maker
Photographer once known
Date
1960
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Gift of Phil Bernstein and Luisa Recalcati
Accession #
2023.385
Location
Currently not on view
