Antioch Church (Blue Mountain, Miss.) after reconstruction
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@ University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Merrill, Marjorie
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The church was burned in October 1964 after announcing that Fannie Lou Hamer would speak there on civil rights. From a series of photos taken by civil rights worker Marjorie Merrill during and after Mississippi Freedom Summer.
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