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| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | 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... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | 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,... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | 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) Brow... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | 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 superinte... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A housing development built to serve the African-American community in McComb, canvassed by civil rights volunteers. "Government built development in McC... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A grave in a segregated cemetery photographed by a civil rights volunteer, who notes that these grounds are cared for "without the benefit of the town's fu... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A grave in a segregated cemetery photographed by a civil rights volunteer, who notes that the Caucasian cemetery uses town funding while the African-Americ... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A car trunk in the foreground frames a house in the background in this image taken by a civil rights volunteer. "House in background is used by twenty-fi... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A woman and two children, photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Mrs. Ernestine Bishop, another most courageous freedom worker. Last summer she walk... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the road outside a home shortly after civil rights volunteers depart from canvassing. "Leaving a house (on the right) after canvassing. B... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A rural road canvassed and photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "'A country mile' - one road to canvass in Summit, Miss. Actually the shaded part of... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A home canvassed by a civil rights volunteer. "One of the 'better' homes that was canvassed in Summit. This one could also represent many homes in Hattie... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A church building photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "The 4th Sunday church of Summit. Rev. Ned Taylor, pastor. After church, Rev. Taylor invited ... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Lodge Hall on Highway 98, photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Another picture of the Lodge Hall, Summit, the site of our first freedom meetings. [... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Lodge Hall on Highway 98, photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Front view of the Lodge Hall (Summit), site of two successful freedom meetings. Prio... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A rural schoolhouse photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "A Negro school located outside Gillsburg, Miss. Photographed on our trip to return two MFD... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | A small group welcomes a returning civil rights volunteer in a parking lot outside the Pennsylvania Railroad station. "A safe return home after my visit ... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Rear view of the home of Mrs. Thompson, who hosted civil rights volunteers in her house. "Back part of Mrs. Thompson's house. Large fan in the kitchen wi... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Image of a billboard near a road taken by a civil rights volunteer. A man stands in front of the billboard across the road. "'Martin Luther King at Comm... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | An African-American church building located near the African American school, as photographed by a civil rights volunteer. "Photographed on our trip to r... |
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