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| Date: | 10 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Four small black-and-white portraits of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidates: Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie Devine, Aaron Henry, and Victoria Gray... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | A slightly elevated view of a civil rights sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter. John Salter is seated in the foreground. Sitting next to him is Joan Trum... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | A group of white teenage boys pour drinks and condiments on African American students sitting at a Woolworth's lunch counter in a non-violent demonstration... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Three civil rights activists sit at a Woolworth's lunch counter in a non-violent demonstration. From left to right are Professor John Salter, Joan Trumpaue... |
| Date: | 05 28 1963 |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Walter Williams lying face down on the floor near the lunch counter at Woolworths, where he was taking part in a sit-in. He had just ... |
| Date: | 02 28 1964 |
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| Description: | A written statement by George Raymond regarding Freedom Day on February 28, 1964 and African Americans' constitutional right to vote. |
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| Description: | A flier featuring the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) logo of two hands, one black, one white, grasped together. The text below reads: "Re... |
| Date: | 08 1963 |
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| Description: | African-Americans approach the courthouse in order to vote. The original caption reads: "Negro citizens attempt to cast ballots in Greenwood, August 1963. ... |
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| Description: | The front page of a pamphlet regarding the "Freedom Democrats" with the headline: "Mississippi Faces Challenge." |
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| Description: | The back page of a pamphlet regarding the Freedom Democrats, including an article titled: "Wayne County Demos Train Guns On Lyndon." |
| Date: | 06 22 1966 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King Jr. marching with a group of people in commemoration of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A memo to the accepted Mississippi Summer Project workers from the Mississippi Summer Project Committee. |
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