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Man seated on small platform in front of a motion picture camera, during a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Creator:Peppler, Jim
Title:Man seated on small platform in front of a motion picture camera, during a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
Date:1967 Apr. 10
Description:

The hearings were conducted by Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph S. Clark, George Murphy, and Jacob Javits; the men are seated at the long table in the background. This image was taken for (but not used in) an article ("Senators Told of Poverty" by Patricia James) and photo spread ("U.S. Senators Meet the People") that appeared on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for April 15-16, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No16_1967_04_15.pdf

Local identification number: Q31853

Types:Black-and-white photographs | Negatives (photographs) | StillImage
Subjects:Clark, Joseph S. | Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986 | Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 | Murphy, George, 1902-1992 | African Americans--Mississippi--Economic conditions | United States--Politics and government--1963-1969 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty | Economic assistance, Domestic--Mississippi | Poverty--Mississippi | Mississippi--Economic conditions | Legislative hearings--Mississippi--Jackson | Heidelberg Hotel (Jackson, Miss.) | Legislators--United States | United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.2987573, -90.1848103
Collection:Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Institution:Alabama Department of Archives and History
Contributors:Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Original Material:

Peppler, James, Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection, Box Notebook 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.

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Persistent Link to Item:http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5988