Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chain gang

Chain gang

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Original – A Southern US chain gang circa 1903. This system of punishment had a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work, including repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. The system was phased out in the United States in the 1950s.

Reason

High quality scan of an illustrative historical image. I'm surprised we don't have any FPs of chain gangs.

Articles in which this image appears

Chain gang

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others

Creator

Detroit Publishing Co; restored by Scewing

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:20, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support This is a shocking photo which clearly illustrates this topic. Nick-D (talk) 23:17, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support per Nick-D.--Godot13 (talk) 00:37, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - High EV. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:46, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Historic value Alborzagros (talk) 10:08, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Sociological EV. Sca (talk) 13:58, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support Yann (talk) 18:15, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support: a sad time in history and needs to be kept for documentation. Now there would be videos. Excellent EV. Fylbecatulous talk 12:40, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Per Nick-D, Fylbecatulous, Sca & Bruce 1ee. Great find. talk→ WPPilot  06:04, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support Wonderful picture and great EV! chsh (talk) 17:33, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:A Southern chain gang c1903-restore.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:21, 27 April 2015 (UTC)