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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of people fill out papers. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A line of predominantly African-American people likely outside of the Leflore County Courthouse, probably at a voter registration drive. Caucasian law enfo... |
| Date: | 07 16 1964 |
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| Description: | Police drag away 15-year-old Annie Lee Turner. Officers are wearing helmets and holding batons. A couple of men with cameras are walking towards the person... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man stands amid a group of seated men and women at a mass meeting. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man stands with his arm raised and his finger pointed upward at a mass meeting. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of people are seated on folding chairs, likely at the MFDP state convention. A woman at the front of the room addresses the group through a microph... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lawrence Guyot, civil rights activist, stands and addresses a seated group. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two children color together in a coloring book during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Children play a game outdoors as a part of a Freedom School activity. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 07 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women work on a community construction project. Several support the framing of a wall, while a man straddles the top of the frame to ham... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman stands and reads. Two children are nearby. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Six women, all wearing kerchiefs on their heads, are seated in a group. One woman is standing. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A room full of people at an MFDP district meeting. Signs bear the names of several counties in central Mississippi. |
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