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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of protestors and law enforcement officers walk along the sidewalk across the street from a Woolworth's department store during a Freedom Summer de... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A young man stands at the open passenger door of a police vehicle. A police officer stands directly behind him. A number of passengers are already in the b... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of two male protestors wearing signs around their necks walking down a sidewalk in a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. The sign... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a kitchen, while a woman on the far right of the frame looks on. The building is a Freedom House used by civil rights volunteers. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand near a fireplace and other rubble of a burned Freedom House used by civil rights workers. The house was "burned down in the middle ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand near a fireplace and other rubble of a burned Freedom House used by civil rights workers. The house was "burned down in the middle ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man stands next to a sign with one hand resting on his hip. The sign next to him says, "I am regist[..] are you[...]." The image was taken inside the Whi... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | The interior of a Freedom House, used by civil rights workers, is decorated with a United States flag and several posters on a wall. A bench below the flag... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A man hand pumps water in the yard outside of White Station Freedom House. "In all the rural Freedom Houses (and all rural houses) wells and outhous... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Three individuals point towards shotgun holes in a door and on the side of a building, highlighted by circles. The building is the Pheba Freedom House, use... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man stand and talk to a seated woman. The standing woman is showing her papers. In the background, a man sits on a sofa talking to a child se... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Pheba Freedom House, used by civil rights workers. Along the walls and doors, bullet holes have been highlighted with circles. |
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| Description: | Group of people sitting on a sofa, with one man standing on the right. The man sitting on the far right holding papers in his hands is Amzie Moore, noted c... |
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| Description: | Amzie Moore, noted civil rights activist and entrepreneur. |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a sidewalk. In the background are several commercial and residential buildings. |
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| Description: | A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a road. In the background are residential buildings. |
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| Description: | Rear view of the charred remains of a house that has been burned. Undamaged homes are in the background. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Portrait of James Farmer, civil rights activist and co-founder of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James Farmer, civil rights activist and co-founder of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). |
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