- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- 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
- Subject:
- Photographers--Mississippi--Jackson
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Jackson
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:
- Blackwell, Unita, 1933-2019
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Killingsworth, J. C., 1921-2007
Moore, Amzie, 1911-1982
Elmore, Iva - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
negatives (photographs) - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Other people are approaching the table; Unita Blackwell is seated beside her, and J. C. Killingsworth is at the far end of the table. The group spoke during the hearing, which was 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:
- Q31863
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5997
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:5997/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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