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Title
Medgar Evers demonstrates against brutality in Jackson, Mississippi
Subject
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Mississippi
African Americans -- Segregation
Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
African Americans--Suffrage--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights- Mississippi
African Americans--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century
Voter registration--Mississippi
Description
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 white man in shirt and tie at right holds what appears to be a cattle prod in the direction of Evers and Wilkins. Evers has a sign on a string around his neck. The sign reads "END BRUTALITY IN JACKSON." The corner of the sign reads "NAACP." Wilkins' sign appears to have been seized by a policeman who writes on the back of it in the foreground. Shop names are visible in the background across the street.
Creator
United Press International
Publisher
United Press International
Rights
United Press International
Relation
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