Poster
I Will Never Turn Back
| A poster with the headline, "I Will Never Turn Back," a quote from a young woman in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer Project in a letter to her mother. Below the headline is a photograph of a charred station wagon being towed on a dolly because the tires were burned. It was found ten miles northeast of the town, Philadelphia, Mississippi, in a swamp. The three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, that were driving the automobile had recently been released from the jail in that town, and were missing. The men had been stopped and murdered by two carloads of Ku Klux Klan members. They were found 44 days later buried nearby in a earthen dam. The text of the poster lists the harassment, jailings, and violence against African Americans living in Mississippi and civil rights workers in that state for the Mississippi Summer Project. On the bottom third of the poster is information about who to contact to urge federal protection for the civil rights workers. |
| Image ID: | 98090 |
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| Creation Date: | 1964 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| State: | Mississippi |
| Collection Name: | CORE records, 1941-2011 |
| Genre: | Poster |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | Mss 14, Series 5, Box 14, Folder 9 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8.5 x 14 inches |
| The poster may have been created by the "Friends of the Parents Emergency Committee for Federal Protection for Workers on the Mississippi Summer Project." |
| Organizations |
| Crime |
| Murder |
| Fires |
| Civil rights |
| Outdoor photography |
| Social problems |
| Race relations |
| Violence |
| Automobiles |
| Trailers |
| Trucks |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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