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Charleston Civil Rights Meeting

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Description: Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur...
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Holly Springs Baptist College Burning

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Description: Charred remains of a Baptist College after having been burned.
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SNCC Group Near Burned Church

Date: 1962
Description: Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia.
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Robert Zellner and Michael Forbes

Date: 03 2002
Description: Congressman Michael Forbes, an unidentified woman, and Robert Zellner pose in front of the Martin Luther King, Jr. monument in front of the Brown Chapel Ba...
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Betsy Flood Victims

Date: 09 10 1965
Description: A New Orleans group hold signs as they rally at Mercy Seat Baptist Church for compensation for lives lost and 25,000 homes ruined during a flood. Reverend ...
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SCEF Leaders

Date: 04 1962
Description: James Dombrowski, (left), executive director of SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and Bishop Edgar A. Love, SCEF chairman, during a meeting.
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Father Garrigan Giving Pre-March Mass

Date: 08 15 1966
Description: Father Michael Garrigan in the background wearing a white robe and glasses holding 8 a.m. mass at St. Joseph's Church with 30 marchers before a Obreros Uni...
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Freedom School Adult Classes

Date: 1964
Description: Out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Adult Classes

Date: 1964
Description: Group of people sitting in chairs while attending out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Lessons

Date: 1964
Description: A white male Freedom Summer volunteer teaches African-American students in a Freedom School in Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Freedom School Students Working

Date: 1964
Description: Students sitting at tables in a Freedom Summer school in Palmer's Crossing at Priest Creek Baptist Church. Classes were usually held out-of-doors because o...
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Freedom School Students

Date: 1964
Description: A group of African-American children pose outdoors on and in front of a pickup truck during Freedom Summer. Likely at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Bap...
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Priest Creek Baptist Church

Date: 1964
Description: Exterior view of the Priest Creek Baptist Church. The church housed the Freedom School during Freedom Summer.
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Pete Seeger at a Concert

Date: 07 14 1964
Description: Pete Seeger walking outdoors through a crowd carrying two instrument cases. The concert took place during Freedom Summer near Hattiesburg. "Pete Seeger san...
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Frame 07: Destroyed Church

Date: 09 20 1964
Description: A man stands inside the ruins of a church building. When printed in the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund Report, vol. II, no. 1, this photograph...
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Delta Ministry Office

Date: 07 1965
Description: Exterior view of the Delta Ministry Office at 702 Wall Street taken by a civil rights volunteer. The office was directed by Reverend Harry Bowie, "the form...
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Church Dedication Service

Date: 07 18 1965
Description: Exterior of a church building taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Dedication services of the Society Hill Baptist Church. At least 400 negroes jammed t...
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Summit Second Sunday Church

Date: 07 1965
Description: A church photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"Summit 2nd Sunday church. Rev. Shaw[?] minister. Because a nearby neighbor who was sitting up all nig...

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Summit Fourth Sunday Church

Date: 07 1965
Description: A church building photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"The 4th Sunday church of Summit. Rev. Ned Taylor, pastor. After church, Rev. Taylor invited ...

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Exterior View of Church

Date: 07 1965
Description: An African-American church building located near the African American school, as photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"Photographed on our trip to r...

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