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Child Next to SNCC Poster

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Description: A small African American child walking towards a door where a woman is holding her hand out. There is a SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) po...
Photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt with Friends

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Description: Eleanor Roosevelt, on left, shaking hands with Mrs. Jennings Perry, standing. May Justus is on the right. At Highlander Folk School. Possibly part of 25th ...
Photograph

Thorsten Horton, Myles Horton, and Rosa Parks

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Description: Thorsten and Myles Horton, sitting on left, watching Rosa Parks, standing and speaking at Highlander Folk School.
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ACORN Meeting

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Description: Five women are seated with an ACORN banner over the blackboard behind them. A man is seated behind them on the right.
Poster

Register, Vote For A Voice!

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Description: A poster encouraging people to register and vote. At the top is a circle with a black hand and a white hand clasped in friendship. Below is the text, "Regi...
Photograph

Frame 04: Many People Singing with Crossed Hands

Date: 1964
Description: An integrated group sing-along at a Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) function.
Photograph

Frame 08: Man Thinking

Date: 1964
Description: An unidentified man with grey hair sits at a table with his hand on his forehead.
Photograph

Frame 22: Local Man Speaking at Meeting

Date: 1964
Description: A man stands amid a group of seated men and women at a mass meeting.
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Frame 23: Local Man Speaking at Meeting

Date: 1964
Description: A man stands with his arm raised and his finger pointed upward at a mass meeting.
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Frame 30: Man Learning to Read and Write

Date: 1964
Description: A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette.
Photograph

Frame 31: Kids Dancing in Circle

Date: 1964
Description: Children play a game outdoors as a part of a Freedom School activity.
Photograph

Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
Photograph

School Segregation Protest March

Date: 1964
Description: A group of protesters march down a street, led by a car. They are protesting school segregation.
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Burned Cross

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Description: A charred wooden cross attached to a stake in the ground on the lawn near a road. In the background are residential buildings.
Photograph

Little Rock Crowd Control

Date: 09 1957
Description: The police used fire hoses to control the angry crowds that gathered near Central High School during the integration crisis. There is a boy on the ground w...
Poster

Register To Vote Flier

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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...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Voter Education Project Newsletter

Date: 08 1963
Description: The front page of the first issue of the Voter Education Project newsletter which includes portraits of Wiley Branton, J. Minnis, and R. Blackwell.
Photograph

Martin Luther King Jr. Marching in Mississippi

Date: 06 22 1966
Description: Martin Luther King Jr. marching with a group of people in commemoration of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
Photograph

Bernice Robinson, Bob Moses and Dave Dennis from CORE

Date: 1964
Description: Bernice Robinson, Bob Moses and Dave Dennis from CORE sitting indoors. One person is unidentified.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

SNCC News Release

Date: 1963
Description: News release from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, Georgia for immediate release in Greenville, Mississippi with the headli...

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