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| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Civil rights sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter. Seated at the counter from left to right are by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody. People pour ... |
| 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: | 08 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A group sings freedom songs at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer. |
| 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: | 01 22 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of Hattiesburg police officers wearing helmets and carrying batons walk in formation down a street in the rain at a Freedom Day on their way to For... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man holds a young girl in his arms. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Four men sit on pews examining paper on clipboards. Behind them, Bob Moses talks with a woman. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man gestures with both hands, lit from above. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of people fill out papers. |
| Date: | 07 16 1964 |
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| Description: | Police drag away 15-year-old Annie Lee Turner. Officers are wearing helmets and holding batons. A couple of men with cameras are walking towards the person... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man stands amid a group of seated men and women at a mass meeting. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man stands with his arm raised and his finger pointed upward at a mass meeting. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of people are seated on folding chairs, likely at the MFDP state convention. A woman at the front of the room addresses the group through a microph... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Lawrence Guyot, civil rights activist, stands and addresses a seated group. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A group of four African-American men are seated at a table looking at papers. Behind them a large group of people are sitting and standing. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two children color together in a coloring book during Freedom Summer. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette. |
| 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... |
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