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Freedom School Students Drinking Coca Cola
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Freedom School students photographed by a civil rights volunteer."A free Coke for all - offered by the new superintendent of schools - helped to create an unexpected friendly atmosphere when Freedom School students brought their complaints to the school administration of McComb. The students spoke up for themselves in asking for specific remedies to certain school conditions. Some of the older students also joined the picket line of the maids at Holiday Inn. In my opinion, the Freedom School may have the greatest influence on the new generation of Negroes in the South."
July 1965
Wacker, Daniel J.
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Freedom School Students Singing
1965
Students in a Freedom School singing and clapping in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Freedom School - Freedom singing led by youngsters and Dennis Selig, a young man from Chicago who ...
Freedom School Students
July 1965
A group of Freedom School students walk along a road in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "Freedom School students on way to see the superintendent of schools. For most if not all stude...
Group of Children
July 1965
A group of children in an image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "My Freedom School friends and students. Left to right: Cleophus (call me Cleo) Brown, R.C. Butler, and George. We not only tal...
Freedom School Lessons
1965
Image of a Freedom School classroom taken by a civil rights volunteer. Students are seated in what appear to be pews. "Freedom School - Freddie Green, young woman on the extreme right, taught with...
Exterior View of Church
July 1965
An African-American church building located near the African American school, as photographed by a civil rights volunteer."Photographed on our trip to return two MFDP (Mississippi Freedom Democrati...
Bedroom
July 1965
View of a bedroom taken by a civil rights volunteer. "George Washington didn't sleep here, but I was fortunate to do so at Mrs. Thompson's for almost three weeks."
