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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Addie Mae Jackson stands in front of her home where Sandra Adickes stayed while volunteering during the Freedom Summer project. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two homes along a dirt road with a small child on the front porch of the nearest house. |
| 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: | Children play a game outdoors as a part of a Freedom School activity. |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Exterior of a home taken by a civil rights volunteer. "The front porch of our home at Mrs. Willie Thompson's, 808 Augusta, McComb, Mississippi. The hous... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A housing development built to serve the African-American community in McComb, canvassed by civil rights volunteers. "Government built development in McC... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A home canvassed by a civil rights volunteer. "One of the 'better' homes that was canvassed in Summit. This one could also represent many homes in Hattie... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the home of Mrs. Thompson, who hosted civil rights volunteers in her house. "Back part of Mrs. Thompson's house. Large fan in the kitchen wi... |
| 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: | 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: | Rear view of the charred remains of a house that has been burned. Undamaged homes are in the background. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "Kids in S. Boston housing project preparing to hang an effigy of a black man." Children are lined up along a chain-link fenc... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Caption on the reverse reads: "S. Boston kids preparing to hang an effigy." One of the boys is standing on the top of the chain-link fence helping the boy ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A group of children are hanging an effigy of an African-American man in a dead tree, creating a mock lynching. One of the boys is sitting on a limb of the ... |
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