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Freedom School Class

Date: 1964
Description: A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ...
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School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.
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Tom Hayden

Date: 1964
Description: Tom Hayden, in the center wearing the dark shirt, looking at a police officer talking to four African-American men. Newark ERAP project. From the SDS colle...
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Freedom School Reenactment of a Slave Revolt

Date: 1964
Description: Three people stand outdoors near a truck acting out a group improvisation of a slave revolt. They were attending Freedom School during Freedom Summer at Pa...
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Frame 05: Lone Man Holding "Leflore" Sign

Date: 1964
Description: A man holds a sign, likely referring to Leflore County in Mississippi, at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) function.
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Frame 10: Rickety Houses on Muddy Street

Date: 1964
Description: Two homes along a dirt road with a small child on the front porch of the nearest house.
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Frame 11: Man and Woman Picking Cotton

Date: 1964
Description: A man and a woman pick cotton by hand.
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Frame 13: Working on the Chain Gang

Date: 1964
Description: A group of correctional inmates work in a trench, while a man with a firearm watches from above.
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Frame 18: Young People Discussing

Date: 1964
Description: A group of people fill out papers.
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Frame 19: "We Want to Vote"

Date: 1964
Description: Two men holding protest signs are walking down a sidewalk past a white police officer who is holding a bullhorn at a Greenwood Freedom Day. In the backgrou...
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Frame 20: People Lined Up At Courthouse and Cops

Date: 1964
Description: A line of predominantly African-American people likely outside of the Leflore County Courthouse, probably at a voter registration drive. Caucasian law enfo...
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Frame 22: Local Man Speaking at Meeting

Date: 1964
Description: A man stands amid a group of seated men and women at a mass meeting.
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Frame 23: Local Man Speaking at Meeting

Date: 1964
Description: A man stands with his arm raised and his finger pointed upward at a mass meeting.
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Frame 26: People Planning Together at Table

Date: 1964
Description: A group of four African-American men are seated at a table looking at papers. Behind them a large group of people are sitting and standing.
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Frame 32: Men and Women Working on Construction Project

Date: 1964
Description: Three people work on a community construction project. All three support a beam while the man in the foreground hammers a nail into it.
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Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
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Frame 36: People Entering Meeting House

Date: 1964
Description: A group of men and women talk outside on the steps of a building and in the open doorway likely attending a mass meeting.
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Frame 45: Mr. Steptoe and Microphones Speaking at Rally

Date: 1964
Description: E.W. Steptoe speaks into several microphones, while several people look on in the background.
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Frame 46: Turnbow and Other Delegate on Boardwalk

Date: 1964
Description: In the foreground are Hartman Turnbow and another MFDP delegate. Several men and women outdoors wear badges on their chests, and patriotic banners and fla...
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Frame 50: Election Posters, LBJ, Hamer, Henry

Date: 1964
Description: Political posters for Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) candidates Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer, along with posters for Lyndon B. Johnson and...

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