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| Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Klansmen of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing conic masks and white robes gather in front of St. James Lutheran Church, Verona, for the funeral of Herbert C. ... |
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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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| Description: | Charred remains of a Baptist College after having been burned. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers pray together near the burned remains of a church in southwestern Georgia. |
| Date: | 07 1901 |
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| Description: | Decorations in the Methodist Episcopal Church of Monroe where the Wisconsin Loyal Temperance League met for its annual convention in 1901. A portrait of n... |
| Date: | 03 2002 |
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| 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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| Description: | View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma... |
| Date: | 09 10 1965 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | James Dombrowski, (left), executive director of SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, and Bishop Edgar A. Love, SCEF chairman, during a meeting. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | The ruins of Charleston after General Sherman's men burned the town near the end of the Civil War. A man, smoking a pipe, and a boy sit on the shoreline of... |
| Date: | 08 15 1966 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 22 2012 |
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| Description: | A homeless man is sitting on Saint Patrick's Catholic Church's steps as a woman on the sidewalk is walking past. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting in chairs while attending out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A white male Freedom Summer volunteer teaches African-American students in a Freedom School in Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Priest Creek Baptist Church. The church housed the Freedom School during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 07 14 1964 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger walking outdoors through a crowd carrying two instrument cases. The concert took place during Freedom Summer near Hattiesburg. "Pete Seeger san... |
| Date: | 09 20 1964 |
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| 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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