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Crowd of observers in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.

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Peppler, Jim

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Most of the observers are white, but an African American man is standing in the center of the group. An Mississippi Highway Patrol officer stands in the foreground. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the march until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf
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Created Date:
1966 June
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection

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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  4. Law Enforcement Officers
  5. Philadelphia (Miss.)

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