Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
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@ Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Peppler, Jim
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J. C. Killingsworth is seated beside her. The hearings were conducted by Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph S. Clark, George Murphy, and Jacob Javits. This image was taken for (but not used in) an article ("Senators Told of Poverty" by Patricia James) and photo spread ("U.S. Senators Meet the People") that appeared on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for April 15-16, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No16_1967_04_15.pdf
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Clergy
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Economic Assistance, Domestic
- Economic Conditions
- Government
- Heidelberg Hotel (Jackson, Miss.)
- Jackson
- Legislative Hearings
- Mississippi
- Politics And Government
- Poverty
- United States
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Labor And Public Welfare. Subcommittee On Employment, Manpower, And Poverty