- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Fannie Lou Hamer speaking at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1967-04-10
- Subject:
- African American clergy--Mississippi
African Americans--Mississippi--Economic conditions
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
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.) - People:
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
Killingsworth, J. C., 1921-2007 - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
negatives (photographs) - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- J. C. Killingsworth is seated beside 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.pdf
- Local Identifier:
- Q20954
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5877
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:5877/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James, Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection, Box Notebook 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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