Andrew Young shaking hands with two young men during the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith.

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Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Title:: Andrew Young shaking hands with two young men during the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith.
Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Publisher:: Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
Date of Original:: 1966-06
Subject:: African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
People:: Young, Andrew, 1932-
Location:: United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
Medium:: negatives (photographs)
Type:: StillImage
Format:: image/jpeg
Description:: The young men are wearing Ole Miss T-shirts. Martin Luther King, Jr., is standing beside Young, mostly blocked. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the march until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf
Local Identifier:: Q16674
Metadata URL:: http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9246
IIIF manifest:: http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:9246/manifest.json
Language:: eng
Additional Rights Information:: Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Original Collection:: Peppler, James
Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection
LPP106, Box 2, Binder 4
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History
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