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J. C. Killingsworth seated before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Peppler, Jim

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Fannie Lou Hamer is seated beside him, but she is not visible in the photograph. 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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Alabama. Department of Archives and History

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African Americans
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Economic Assistance, Domestic
  6. Economic Conditions
  7. Government
  8. Heidelberg Hotel (Jackson, Miss.)
  9. Jackson
  10. Legislative Hearings
  11. Mississippi
  12. Politics And Government
  13. Poverty
  14. United States
  15. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Labor And Public Welfare. Subcommittee On Employment, Manpower, And Poverty

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