Photograph
Ernestine Bishop with Children
![A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer.<p>"Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walked alone at night the roads of Summit trying [to] get people to work for freedom. She unsuccessfully tried to send her six-year-old daughter to the all-white school. She has been forced to move several times because of her activities. Presently she and her four children (two pictured) are living with her mother. However there are 25 persons living in the four-room house."](http://images.wisconsinhistory.org/700012100007/1210000126-l.jpg "Ernestine Bishop with Children")
| A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walked alone at night the roads of Summit trying [to] get people to work for freedom. She unsuccessfully tried to send her six-year-old daughter to the all-white school. She has been forced to move several times because of her activities. Presently she and her four children (two pictured) are living with her mother. However there are 25 persons living in the four-room house." |
| Image ID: | 98718 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 1965 |
| Creator Name: | Wacker, Daniel J. |
| City: | Summit |
| County: | |
| State: | Mississippi |
| Collection Name: | Daniel J. Wacker papers, 1965-1967, 1993 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH Mss 868 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3.5 x 3.5 inches |
| Image 31 |
| Plants |
| Trees |
| Clothing and dress |
| Underwear |
| African Americans |
| Children and adults |
| Family |
| Outdoor photography |
| Portraits, Group |
| Women |
| Civil rights |
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