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[Mrs. Bulah Melton, 29, widow of shotgun-victim Clinton Melton, with her four children, being interviewed at her Mississippi home by NAACP field secretary Medgar W. Evers]

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  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Evers, Medgar Wiley
  4. Interviews
  5. Melton, Bulah
  6. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  7. People
  8. Photographic Prints

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