Killingsworth, J. C., 1921-2007

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Born in Mississippi on March 11, 1921 to Anderson and Mattie Killingsworth, J. C. Killingsworth became a prominent figure and leader in the civil rights movement. Killingsworth, an African American Methodist minister, focused most of his attention in Mississippi where he worked tirelessly throughout the state to educate and register African American voters. In addition to his work with voter registration, Killingsworth organized boycotts and demonstrations throughout the state and participated in notable marches such as the March on Washington and the second Selma to Montgomery march. In 1964, he accompanied Fannie Lou Hamer to the Democratic National Convention to testify to the voting practices in the South. Killingsworth died on December 2, 2007.

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Killingsworth, J. C., 1921-2007

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Fannie Lou Hamer and others, seated at a table before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1967-04-10
Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Fannie Lou Hamer and others, seated at a table before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1967-04-10
Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Fannie Lou Hamer and others, seated at a table before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1967-04-10
Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Fannie Lou Hamer and others, seated at a table before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1967-04-10
Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Fannie Lou Hamer seated before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1967-04-10
Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Fannie Lou Hamer seated before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

Creator:: Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:: 1967-04-10
Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Oral history interview with Rev. J.C. Killingsworth, Negro, male, minister, FDP: local leader, 0360, 0364, Stonewall, Mississippi

Creator:: KZSU (Radio station : Stanford, Calif.)
Stanford University. Institute of American History
KZSU Project South Interviews (SC0066)
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: KZSU Project South Interviews
Contributing Institution:: Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections