Participants in the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith, sitting and lying on the ground under a tent during a Sunday morning prayer session led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The man in the foreground is holding a pipe. The march began on June 5 in Memphis. 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, an...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9729 |