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 ... |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Amzie Moore in military uniform. |
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Description: | Civil rights period, Delta Ministry. Myles Horton speaking with an African American man smoking a cigar. |
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: | 1964 |
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Description: | Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer. |
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: | 09 22 1955 |
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Description: | Willie Reed, an 18-year-old "surprise" witness who bravely testified during the murder trial of 14-year-old Emmett Till, correctly identifying the white de... |
Date: | 08 1955 |
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Description: | A group of African Americans in the courtroom at the Emmett Till murder trial. The 14-year-old Till, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was murdere... |
Date: | 08 08 1964 |
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Description: | A group sings freedom songs at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | In the summer of 1964, Freedom Summer volunteers pose in front of a campaign poster for Victoria Jackson Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candida... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Three people stand outdoors near a truck acting out a group improvisation of a slave revolt. They were attending Freedom School during Freedom Summer at Pa... |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Groups of students attend class during Freedom Summer as they sit outside in the shade. Likely at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | Group of people sitting in chairs while attending out-of-doors classes during Freedom Summer at the Freedom School, Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
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: | A white male Freedom Summer volunteer teaches African-American students in a Freedom School in Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
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... |
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