James Meredith speaking to reporters on the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi, during the "March against Fear" that Meredith began.

He is seated on the ground, and a doctor from the Medical Committee for Human Rights is examining his leg (though the doctor is not visible in this photograph). Meredith began the march on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, but was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out. He was not able to rejoin...

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Main Author: Peppler, Jim
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9782
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Summary:He is seated on the ground, and a doctor from the Medical Committee for Human Rights is examining his leg (though the doctor is not visible in this photograph). Meredith began the march on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, but was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out. He was not able to rejoin the march until June 25, the day before it ended in Jackson, Mississippi. 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