James Meredith speaking to reporters on the campus of Tougaloo College in Mississippi, during the "March against Fear" that he 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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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9783 |