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Henry Hampton interviewing William B. Huie in 1979. Photograph was taken on the set of the interview during initial production of "Eyes on the Prize."

Collage of four photographs from "Eyes on the Prize" pasted to foam board:

1) Volunteers talking to a Mississippi resident on a porch during freedom summer, 2) Freedom school sign in Indianola, Mississippi. Joined black and white hands and the…

Shown left to right: Bob Moses, Julian Bond, two unidentified men, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe.

Lyndon B. Johnson greets Martin Luther King, Jr. in the U.S. Capitol, after signing the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965. Group also includes Patricia Harris, Ralph Abernathy, and Clarence M. Mitchell.

Two African-American girls look out the window of a "Freedom School." The girl at left wears a hat and smiles. The girl at right has a name tag that reads [Illegible] Hall Pascag-," possibly Pascagoula, Mississippi. The "Freedom Schools" were set up…

A voter marks the ballot of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO)’s Freedom Vote, a mock election, held to protest mass disenfranchisement of black citizens in Mississippi.

Crowds of people standing and sitting at tables during voter registration in Canton, Mississippi.
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (16543 U9-14512 #26 MB)

Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary, and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, are arrested for protesting beatings and arrests of civil rights demonstrators in Jackson, Mississippi. The two men are surrounded by white police officers. A…

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates holding hands in a circle (praying) at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

Fannie Lou Hamer testifies at Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1964.