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I Will Never Turn Back



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Title: I Will Never Turn Back
Description: A poster with the headline, "I Will Never Turn Back," a quote from a young woman in Mississippi for the Freedom Summer Project in a letter to her mother. Below the headline is a photograph of a charred station wagon being towed on a dolly because the tires were burned. It was found ten miles northeast of the town, Philadelphia, Mississippi, in a swamp. The three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, that were driving the automobile had recently been released from the jail in that town, and were missing. The men had been stopped and murdered by two carloads of Ku Klux Klan members. They were found 44 days later buried nearby in a earthen dam. The text of the poster lists the harassment, jailings, and violence against African Americans living in Mississippi and civil rights workers in that state for the Mississippi Summer Project. On the bottom third of the poster is information about who to contact to urge federal protection for the civil rights workers.
Image ID: 98090
Creation
Date: 		1964 
Creator
Name: 		Unknown
Collection
Name: 		Congress of Racial Equality : Records, 1941-1967
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		The poster may have been created by the "Friends of the Parents Emergency Committee for Federal Protection for Workers on the Mississippi Summer Project."
Subjects: Crime
Fires
Organizations
Trailers
Social problems
Race relations
Automobiles
Trucks
Outdoor photography
Civil rights
Violence
Murder
 

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