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<id>mus_moncrief_whm464</id>
<item>whm464</item>
<coll>moncrief</coll>
<repo>mus</repo>
<public>yes</public>
<dc_title>Dahmer, demonstrations, Jan 1966</dc_title>
<dc_creator>Moncrief, Winfred H., 1923-</dc_creator>
<dc_subject>Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African American churches--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African American civil rights workers--Crimes against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--Employees</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Direct action--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Mass meetings--Mississippi--Hattiesburg</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966--Assassination</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_subject_personal>Evers, Charles, 1922-</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>Demonstrations associated with murder and funeral of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, January 1966, Hattiesburg (Miss.). Charles Evers, state NAACP field secretary, speaks at podium, unidentified location and date. Possibly one of nightly meetings held at St. James Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the week prior to the January 15 funeral.</dc_description>
<dc_description>The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.</dc_description>
<dc_publisher>Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archives and Library</dc_publisher>
<dc_contributor>Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Moncrief Photograph Collection (Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History)</dc_contributor>
<dc_date>2007</dc_date>
<dc_type>Black-and-white photographs</dc_type>
<dc_identifier>http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/moncrief/image.php?display=item&amp;item=464</dc_identifier>
<dc_source>Moncrief (Winfred) Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.</dc_source>
<dc_relation>Forms part of Moncrief Photograph Collection.</dc_relation>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1966-01</dc_coverage_temporal>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Hattiesburg (Miss.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Forrest County (Miss.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
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