Civil Rights Movement Photographs
Before I'll Be a Slave
I'll Be Buried in My Grave

Cortland Cox, Phyllis Cunningham, and Worth Long at SNCC's Waveland conference, November 1964.

SNCC organizers (from left): Jim Forman, Cleveland Sellers, Ruby Doris Robinson, Stokely Carmichael. Probably 1966.

Mrs. Hamer addressing a support rally for the MFDP MFDP Congressional Challenge in Washington DC, September 1965.

Picketing the Washington County courthouse in 1965 for full school desegregation rather than one grade per year.

SNCC worker Pat Vail with students integrating the public library in Greenville.

Protesters in Greenville shortly before they are arrested. 1965

Defiantly trying to register to vote at the Rankin Co. courthouse in Brandon MS. May, 1965.

Marvin Wilson, 11, leads workshop on nonviolent tactics in preparation for demonstrations in Jackson. Black students were the backbone of street demonstrations.

Jackson MS protesters caged and hauled off incarceration at the fair grounds, June 1965

Lowndes County freedom house and LCFO headquarters. From left to right, SNCC workers, unidentified, Michael (Oshoosi) Wright, and Jennifer Lawson.

Rush-hour in Lowndes County AL.
Stokely Carmichael of SNCC canvassing for voter registration.

Homeland defense in Lowndes County.

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.

SNCC workers Jimmy Rogers (left), Ruby Sales, unidentified, and Gloria Larry at the September 1965 murder trial of Tom Coleman for the assasination of Jonathan Daniels in August.

LCFO Candidate Nominating Convention, 1966

LCFO campaign flyers — 1966.

Lowndes County leader John Hulett, on election day, November 1966.

Peachtree Alabama (Wilcox County), May 1966
Afro-Americans vote for the first time in their lives

Lining up to vote for LCFO candidates, November 1966

Julian Bond denied his seat in the Georgia legislature because he opposes the Vietnam War.

Break-away protesters try to force their way into Georgia legislature to protest refusal to seat Julian Bond.

Julian Bond finally takes his seat in the Assembly, January, 1967.

Delegate Julian Bond at the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago.

Stokely Carmichael of SNCC handing out anti-Vietnam War flyers. Tuskegee, 1966

Protesting the killing of Sammy Younge, January, 1966. SNCC worker Michael Wright in foreground (with hat).

Delta Ministry office on Mobile St. in Hattiesburg MS, 1965. The COFO office was across the street, the NAACP next door, and the MFDP around the corner.

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.

Black Power at U.C. Berkeley 1966. On stage Ron Bridgeforth and Stokely Carmichael of SNCC, unidentified, James Bevel (SCLC) seated.

Black Power speech at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress. London, England. 1967.

Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. New York City, April 15, 1967. The first 100,000+ mass march against the war. Many Freedom Movement activists played key roles in organizing it.

Protesting the War in Vietnam, Assembly of Unrepresented People, Washington DC, August 6, 1965. Dave Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, Bob Moses splashed with red paint by pro-war provacateur.

SNCC leader Cleveland Sellers outside Atlanta induction center after refusing the draft.

Paul Lauter (AFSC) and Dr. King meeting Vietnamese anti-war and Buddist leader Thich Nhat Hanh in Chicago, 1966

Dr. King addressing an anti-war meeting, Washington DC, February 6, 1968.

Martin Luther King at election rally, Eutaw Alabama, May 1966.

Joan Baez at SCLC staff retreat, Frogmore SC. 1966.

Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer (MFDP), Dorothy Height (NCNW),
Peggy Cowan (Wednesdays In Mississippi), 1967.

Rev. Richard Boone, Lula Williams, and Roosevelt Barnett of SCLC canvasing the Newton community in Montgomery County to win access to federal food stamps, 1967.

Bob Zellner, in a plaid shirt, conducts a Grass Roots Organizing
Work (GROW) workshop with workers in Laurel, MS. Undated.

Ms. Ella Baker, Harlem news conference, Jan. 1968

Dr. Aaron Shirley, Mound Bayou MS. 1968.

Organizing at the grassroots, Mississippi, 1968.

Muhammad Ali and Rev. Sharpton, Jackson MS.

Activist L.C. Dorsey, vegtable co-op, Bolivar Co. MS. 1968.

Mrs. Hamer leads singing at 1969 MFDP rally in Holmes County courthouse.
The first time since Reconstruction that Blacks are allowed to use it for a political meeting.