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Jo Freeman

Group 19 - Chapter 105 - The Meredith Mississippi March, June 1966

 

 

 

 

Marchers line up to resume walking after a lunchbreak.

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As the day ends, marchers leave the highway to go to their campgrounds for the evening.

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Almost every Mississippi town has a Confederate monument, usually in the town square. When marchers gathered around this momument in Grenada one stuck an American flag into the medallion portraying Jefferson Davis. It was removed by locals after the marchers left. Bob Green of SCLC is speaking, while Big Lester eyes the crowd.

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Another county seat, another Civil War monument, another rally. Hosea Williams, director of Southern projects for SCLC, addresses the crowd. Floyd McKissick of CORE stands behind him.

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Irritated by the marchers takeover of the local Civil War monuments, Mississippi officials surrounded this monument with prisoners from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman farm. The rally in Belzoni was held on the courthouse steps.

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March participants watch a rally on the courthouse steps.

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One young man remembers Jimmy Lee Jackson, who was killed in February 1965 in Alabama while demonstrating for voter registration.

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During the March, local Mississippians registered to vote for the first time.

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Representatives of Health and Hospital workers, Local 1199, New York City.

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Waiting for something to happen.

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 Spectators.

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Some good ole boys give their opinion of the marchers.

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Dr. King speaks to the marchers under the circus tent.

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The marchers arrive in Jackson, Mississippi for the last rally of the march.

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The Mississippi Highway Patrol keeps the marchers away from the Capitol building in Jackson.

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James Meredith addresses the rally in Jackson, Mississippi.

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