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- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Michael Thelwell and William R. Dunlap listening to testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty, during a hearing at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-04-10
- Subject:
- Dunlap, William R.
African Americans--Civil rights
Political science
Jackson (Miss.) - People:
- Thelwell, Michael
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Thelwell, a SNCC field secretary, was later the founding chair of the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Dunlap was an artist, writer, and arts commentator in Mississippi. The hearings were conducted by Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph S. Clark, George Murphy, and Jacob Javits. This image was 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 - Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5952
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:5952/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights: