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| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Children play a game outdoors as a part of a Freedom School activity. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Three people work on a community construction project. All three support a beam while the man in the foreground hammers a nail into it. |
| Date: | 07 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women work on a community construction project. Several support the framing of a wall, while a man straddles the top of the frame to ham... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman stands and reads. Two children are nearby. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women talk outside on the steps of a building and in the open doorway likely attending a mass meeting. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Six women, all wearing kerchiefs on their heads, are seated in a group. One woman is standing. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A room full of people at an MFDP district meeting. Signs bear the names of several counties in central Mississippi. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A large group of predominantly African-Americans sitting at a rally or other gathering. |
| Date: | 08 06 1964 |
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| Description: | Audience and stage with a banner that reads "Freedom Democratic Party" at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) State Convention. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing suits stand in front of a crowd of people. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man stands outdoors next to a motorcoach with an open door. There is luggage on the curb next to him. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A television set displays an image of Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and political figure, speaking into microphones. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | E.W. Steptoe speaks into several microphones, while several people look on in the background. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | In the foreground are Hartman Turnbow and another MFDP delegate. Several men and women outdoors wear badges on their chests, and patriotic banners and fla... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Political posters for Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) candidates Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer, along with posters for Lyndon B. Johnson and... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A large group sit in an auditorium facing an empty stage at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic (MFDP) State Convention. Signs posted among the chairs bear ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Victoria Gray, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) candidate, speaks at an MFDP meeting. In the background a man stand in front of an empty stage. ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a knit cap stands in front of a microphone. The badge on her chest identifies her as an MFDP member from Hinds County. Three men behind her... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Several men sit in front of a large sign supporting Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign. |
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