Before I'll Be a Slave
I'll Be Buried in My Grave

The Black Panther in Lowndes County, AL

[© Doug Harris ]

[© Bob Fletcher] [© Doug Harris]

 

[SNCC Document]

 

Interior panel of brochure for the Lowndes County (Alabama) Freedom Organization (LCFO), Fall 1966, from the H.K. Yuen Archive, U.C. Berkeley.

 

SNCC's Stokely Carmichael working to build the Lowndes County
Freedom Organization (LCFO). 1965.

[Photographer unknown]

(Below) LCFO campaign flyers — 1966.

[© John Ford]

 

Greenville Air Force Base Occupation, January 1966

[Photographer unknown]

 

See Mississippi Freedom Labor Union for background.
[Photographer unknown]
[Photographer unknown]

 

Meredith March Against Fear in Mississippi

[Photographer unknown]

James Meredith lies wounded on the pavement after being gunned down on the highway. 1966.

[photographer unknown]

The Movement takes up the march to Jackson from the spot where Meredith was gunned down.

[© John Phillips]

[© John Phillips]

[© John Phillips]

[© Jo Freeman]

Above, Dr. King addresses one of the mass meetings held each night of the Meredith march (location and name of this church is not known).

  [© Jo Freeman]

 

Rev. Hosea Williams preaching a sermon of justice to mass meeting on the Meredith March.

[© John Phillips]

 

James Brown entertaining the marchers at Freedom Rally, Jackson, MS. 1966.

[© Jim Peppler]

 

Martin Luther King, James Meredith, Floyd McKissick.

 

Grenada, Mississippi, 1966

[© Les Jordan]

 

The Meredith March sparks the Grenada Movement which erupts into five straight months of daily marches and protests that confront KKK mobs and an army of state troopers.

[© Bruce Hartford]

 

 

SCLC organizer R.B. Cottonreader leads Grenada "Blackout" (boycott) pickets, 1966.

[Photographer unknown]
[Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photo]

 

Mass rally on Grenada's central town square. 1966.

[© Charmian Reading]

 

 

Night rally on the Grenada green in front of the Confederate Memorial.

 

 

Black Power!

[© Bob Fitch Photo]

 

Greenwood MS, 1966, on the Meredith March. SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) calls for "Black Power."

[© AP Photo]

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) addresses Florida A&M students on Black Power. 1967.

 

Marching From Bogalusa to Baton Rouge — 1967

[Photograher unknown]

On the march in Louisiana. Freedom marchers cross the Amite river on their way from Bogalusa to the state capitol in Baton Rouge. After repeated attacks by the KKK, the Governor is forced to provide National Guard and state troopers to protect the demonstrators on their 10-day march.

 

Garbage Workers Strike, Memphis TN, 1968

[Photographer unknown]
Union Meeting

[Press Scimitar photograph]

 

Striking workers picketing on Beale Street.

[© Barney Sellers]
[© Sam Melhorn]

 

Cops breaking up striker march on Beale Street.

[Photographer unknown]
[Photographer unknown]

[Photographer unknown]
Community Mass Meeting Supporting the Strike

[Photographer unknown]

[Photographer unknown]

 

Mass March in Support of Strike
[Photographer unknown]

 

Poor Peoples' March, Mississippi to Washington DC, 1968

[Smithsonian photo] [© Ernest Withers]

 

 

[Photographer unknown] Martin Luther King's Last Testimony

"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

 — The final words from Martin Luther King's last speech, given in Memphis Tennessee the night before he was assasinated on April 4, 1968


PREVIOUS

NEXT

© Copyright
Webspinner: webmaster@crmvet.org
(Labor donated)