United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481Peppler, Jim1967-04-10Unita Blackwell, Fannie Lou Hamer, J. C. Killingsworth, and others are seated at the table with her. The hearings were conducted by Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph S. Clark, George Murphy, and Jacob Javits. 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.pdfimage/jpegQ31083enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Peppler, James, Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection, Box Notebook 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.African American civil rights workers--MississippiAfrican Americans--Mississippi--Economic conditionsUnited States--Politics and government--1963-1969United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and PovertyEconomic assistance, Domestic--MississippiPoverty--MississippiMississippi--Economic conditionsLegislative hearings--Mississippi--JacksonHeidelberg Hotel (Jackson, Miss.)Woman speaking at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.StillImage