John A. Wilson drinking soda at a rest stop during the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith.
He is wearing a Maryland State College shirt and a pin that reads, "I Believe in Human Dignity." (Wilson was later elected to Washington D.C.'s first city council, where he served from 1975 to 1993.) The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mis...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9325 |