Senators Joseph Clark and Robert F. Kennedy of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, listening to testimony during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Peppler, Jim
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Senators George Murphy and Jacob Javits were also part of the subcommittee. 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 in 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 Americans
- Economic Assistance, Domestic
- Economic Conditions
- Government
- Heidelberg Hotel (Jackson, Miss.)
- Jackson
- Legislative Hearings
- Legislators
- Mississippi
- Politics And Government
- Poverty
- United States
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Labor And Public Welfare. Subcommittee On Employment, Manpower, And Poverty