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Harvesting Sugar Cane

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Description: Agricultural laborers harvesting sugar cane.
Photograph

Frame 27: Integrated Canvassing

Date: 1964
Description: Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them.
Map or Atlas

Map for Canton Boycott

Date: 1963
Description: A map with handwritten notes and locations for Freedom Fighters participating in the Canton Boycott, for orientation during picketing. It is not a map show...
Photograph

Freedom School Students Drinking Coca Cola

Date: 07 1965
Description: Freedom School students photographed by a civil rights volunteer.

"A free Coke for all - offered by the new superintendent of schools - helped to create ...

Photograph

Children on Porch, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A group of children, several holding balloons, gather on the porch of a building near a debris-scattered yard.

“Row upon row of dilapidated buildings, th...

Photograph

Children near Ditch, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: Two children look towards the photographer by a drainage ditch with buildings on all sides. Laundry hangs from clotheslines above.

“Row upon row of dilap...

Photograph

Girl at Water Hydrant, Phelan's Quarters

Date: 1966
Description: A girl fills a bucket at a water hydrant near a drainage ditch. Buildings are on either side, and laundry hangs from clotheslines above.

“Row upon row o...

Photograph

Bottles on Stoop, North Wall Street

Date: 1966
Description: Two containers of Coke bottles sit on the front steps of a house.

The North Wall Street neighborhood houses 37 families in 22 buildings, with 30 hydrants...

Photograph

Woman with Headphones

Date: 1965
Description: A woman, identified as Tracy, friend of Rob McNamara and supporter of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), wears headphones and eats. Behind h...
Print

Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel Menu

Date: 03 30 1962
Description: Menu from the Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel, with an illustration of an arch over an elevated, covered walkway, cars on the road beneath, and the motel in the yel...
Photograph

Faulkner's Grave

Date: 02 2014
Description: Gravestone of William Cuthbert Faulkner and his wife, Estelle Faulkner, in St. Peter's Cemetery. The markers and gravestones are weathered and dirty, and t...

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