People standing on the sidewalk in front of a downtown building in Madison County, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
The photograph was taken from inside the building. A sign in one of the windows advertises voting applications, in accordance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly af...
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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/9632 |