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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
(Below) LCFO campaign flyers 1966.
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See Mississippi Freedom Labor Union for background. |
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James Meredith lies wounded on the pavement after being gunned down on the highway. 1966. |
The Movement takes up the march to Jackson from the spot where Meredith was gunned down. |
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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).
Rev. Hosea Williams preaching a sermon of justice to mass meeting on the Meredith March. |
James Brown entertaining the marchers at Freedom Rally, Jackson, MS. 1966. |
Martin Luther King, James Meredith, Floyd McKissick. |
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. |
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SCLC organizer R.B. Cottonreader leads Grenada "Blackout" (boycott) pickets, 1966. |
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Mass rally on Grenada's central town square. 1966. |
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Night rally on the Grenada green in front of the Confederate Memorial. |
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Greenwood MS, 1966, on the Meredith March. SNCC Chairman Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) calls for "Black Power." |
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) addresses Florida A&M students on Black Power. 1967. |
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. |
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Striking workers picketing on Beale Street. |
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Cops breaking up striker march on Beale Street. |
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Mass March in Support of Strike |
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