Back to Collection: Remembering Mississippi Freedom Summer
Freedom summer photo board
Dublin Core
Title
Freedom summer photo board
Subject
Mississippi
Mississippi Freedom Project
African Americans -- Segregation
Beymer, Richard, 1939-
Documentary films -- United States.
Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi
Mississippi Freedom Project
African Americans -- Segregation
Beymer, Richard, 1939-
Documentary films -- United States.
Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.
Mississippi -- Race relations.
Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- Mississippi
Description
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 words, "INDIANOLA FREEDOM SCHOOL" 3) Freedom school banner printed with "Freedom" and handprints 4) Freedom school students learning to type.
Images are from 1964, taken during Freedom Summer, but complied into a collage/poster board by Blackside circa 1985.
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 words, "INDIANOLA FREEDOM SCHOOL" 3) Freedom school banner printed with "Freedom" and handprints 4) Freedom school students learning to type.
Images are from 1964, taken during Freedom Summer, but complied into a collage/poster board by Blackside circa 1985.
Creator
Blackside, Inc.
Relation
http://mavisweb.wulib.wustl.edu:81/mavisDetail/TitleWork/key/14027
Format
image
Language
en
Type
image
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
photo
Physical Dimensions
16 x 20 in.
Citation
Blackside, Inc. , “Freedom summer photo board,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 26, 2024, http://omeka.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/8343.
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