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- 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
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-04-10
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights workers
Legislators--United States
Political science
Jackson (Miss.) - People:
- Clark, Joseph S.
Blackwell, Unita, 1933-2019
Hamer, Fannie Lou
Javits, Jacob K. (Jacob Koppel), 1904-1986
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Killingsworth, J. C., 1921-2007
Murphy, George, 1902-1992 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- 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
- 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
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James
Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection
LPP106, Box 2, Binder 3 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights: