Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A group of African American students participating in a Freedom School class outdoors during Freedom Summer. The class, which was held on Tougaloo College ... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | View down long table set up outdoors for a feast. Men are standing on both sides, and a young girl is standing between two men on the right. |
Date: | 1982 |
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Description: | Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi... |
Date: | 1983 |
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Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
Date: | 09 1955 |
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Description: | Rev. Moses Wright and his son Simon outside the Sumner courthouse where two white men were on trial for the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till (Wright's nep... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,... |
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Description: | "Homewood," with its four Ionic columns in front, was built in 1855-1860 and owned by David Hunt. People are posing on the stairs at the entrance. Caption ... |
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Description: | A page from a Greenville Mills employee brochure showing employees enjoying themselves playing baseball, playing at a family picnic, and smoking. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View across water towards an outdoor baptism at McBrayer's Pond. A group of adults and children are gathered at the water's edge, some of them holding para... |
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Description: | A large group of adults and children gather around a pond where a baptism is taking place, some standing on a bridge on the right. Several people stand in ... |
Date: | 07 13 1914 |
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Description: | Lula Tunisson using an El Flo hot water canner to give a presentation to the men, women, and children of a canning club. |
Date: | 11 30 1915 |
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Description: | View down dirt-covered residential street among trees. A horse-drawn carriage is coming down the road, and a woman and child are standing on the sidewalk o... |
Date: | 1938 |
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Description: | International D-30 bus picking up two students on a rural road in the Mount Olive school district. This bus was equipped with a 155-inch wheel base and a 1... |
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: | 07 1965 |
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Description: | Two boys on a porch pose for a civil rights volunteer. "Tyrone (right) and his brother — my first friends whose parents allowed me to use their large bed d... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | A toddler sits on the ground and laughs while paging through a book. |
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: | A man holds a young girl in his arms. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Two children color together in a coloring book during Freedom Summer. |
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