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Truck, Delta Ministry

Date: 07 1965
Description: International Harvester Metro parked outdoors photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Delta Ministry Express - 80 m.p.h. trip from Hattiesburg to Edward...
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Front Porch of Quin House

Date: 07 1965
Description: The meeting place of the MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party) in McComb, taken by a civil rights volunteer.

"Mrs. Quin's house — the door was the ...

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Quin House

Date: 07 1965
Description: View of a home taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Mrs. Quin's home. The section to the right of the tree shows the new bedroom, rebuilt after it was b...
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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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Freedom School Students

Date: 07 1965
Description: A group of Freedom School students walk along a road in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Freedom School students on way to see the superinte...
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Government Housing Development

Date: 07 1965
Description: A housing development built to serve the African-American community in McComb, canvassed by civil rights volunteers.

"Government built development in McC...

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Trunk of Car and House

Date: 07 1965
Description: A car trunk in the foreground frames a house in the background in this image taken by a civil rights volunteer.

"House in background is used by twenty-fi...

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Man on Road

Date: 07 1965
Description: A man stands on the road outside a home shortly after civil rights volunteers depart from canvassing.

"Leaving a house (on the right) after canvassing. B...

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A Country Mile

Date: 07 1965
Description: A rural road canvassed and photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"'A country mile' - one road to canvass in Summit, Miss. Actually the shaded part of...

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Lodge Hall

Date: 07 1965
Description: Lodge Hall on Highway 98, photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"Another picture of the Lodge Hall, Summit, the site of our first freedom meetings. [...

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A Return Home

Date: 07 1965
Description: A small group welcomes a returning civil rights volunteer in a parking lot outside the Pennsylvania Railroad station.

"A safe return home after my visit ...

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