Participants in the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith, leaving the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi.
Several people are holding signs from the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), which read, "U.A.W. Supports Freedom To Work - To Walk - To Vote!" The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Mere...
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection |
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Alabama Department of Archives and History |
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Alabama Department of Archives and History |
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Southern Courier photographs |
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Southern Courier photographs Participants in the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith, leaving the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Peppler, Jim |
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Southern Courier photographs African Americans--Civil rights; Civil rights demonstrations; Tougaloo (Miss.) |
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Several people are holding signs from the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), which read, "U.A.W. Supports Freedom To Work - To Walk - To Vote!" The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the march until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf |
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Q0000026083Q26083Participants in the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith, leaving the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi.Several people are holding signs from the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), which read, "U.A.W. Supports Freedom To Work - To Walk - To Vote!" The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the march until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf1966 June1960-1969Peppler, JimAfrican Americans--Civil rights; Civil rights demonstrations; Tougaloo (Miss.)Still imageNegatives (Photographic)Peppler, JamesJim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collectionLPP106, Box 2, Binder 4Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130EnglishCopyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.4000 PPI TIFFhttp://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9593 |
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Participants in the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith, leaving the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi. |
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Participants in the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith, leaving the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi. |
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Peppler, Jim |
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Peppler, Jim |
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