Crowd of observers in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
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...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/8986 |