| Summary: | Demonstrations - Mississippi - Hernando / Hernando / Mississippi - March / Martin Luther King Jr. / Dick Gregory / [McKissick] / Cameron [Carmichael] / Highway patrolmen / Memphis to Jackson March / June 7, 1966 / Roll begins with shots of Dick Gregory and company leaving Hernando northward toward Memphis [then] switches to the Civil Rights Movement's "Big Three" - [Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Floyd McKissick - setting out later, arms locked from the site where Meredith was ambushed. / Roll may also have pictures on it showing sequence, possibly one. Used up first roll just as shoving between patrolmen and marchers began. / Possible caption for arm-linked picture: (King Party) / Civil rights "Big Three" where Meredith Fell / [McKissick], Dr. King, Cameron [Carmichael] and others begin march from ambush site. / Possible caption for confrontation between patrolmen and marchers / An order off highway pavement, then shoves / Highway patrolmen enforced "highway shoulder only" marching. / Gregory marchers at first of roll... pictures should be easily distinguished from King group. Gregory party had women and children / Gregory marchers went north toward Memphis / Gregory marchers pull "Wrong-Way Corrigan" Act / Instead of south to Jackson, comedian Gregory went north. / [Notes included]
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