- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Men and women 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
- Subject:
- Legislators--United States
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi
African Americans--Mississippi--Economic conditions
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:
- Clark, Joseph S.
Hardy, Annie Mae
Blackwell, Unita, 1933-2019
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Killingsworth, J. C., 1921-2007
Moore, Amzie, 1911-1982
Elmore, Iva
Turner, G. O.
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Murphy, George, 1902-1992 - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
negatives (photographs) - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The men and women addressed the committee at the hearing. J. C. Killingsworth, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Unita Blackwell are in the group; the photograph was taken from behind. The hearings were conducted by Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph S. Clark, George Murphy, and Jacob Javits; the men are seated at the long table in the background. 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:
- Q31857
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5992
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:5992/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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