- Collection:
- Moncrief photograph collection
- Title:
- Voter registration, Prentiss, October 1965
- Creator:
- Moncrief, Winfred H., 1923-
- Date of Original:
- 1965-10
- Subject:
- Voter registration--Law and legislation--Mississippi
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century
Voter registration--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century
Prentiss (Miss.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century
Motels--Mississippi--Prentiss
Businesspeople--Mississippi--Prentiss - People:
- Allen, Aligene
Allen, Burt - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Jefferson Davis County, 31.56964, -89.823
United States, Mississippi, Jefferson Davis County, Prentiss, 31.5985, -89.86702 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Voter registration August 25, 1965, at the Magnolia Motel in Prentiss (Miss.), following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Motel owners Burt Allen and (mother) Aligene Allen discuss problems created by a federal court order that secured four rooms for voter registration.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://www.mdah.ms.gov/arrec/digital_archives/moncrief/image.php?display=item&item=336
- Additional Rights Information:
- The electronic files in the Moncrief Photograph Collection are intended for public use in research, teaching, and private study in accordance with the provisions of the Fair Use clause of the United States Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Any use beyond that prescribed by Fair Use requires the permission of the copyright holder, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. In addition, MDAH asks that each image used in a presentation, display, or publication be accompanied by a credit line that gives the name of this collection, the unique ID #, the name of this institution, and URL, according to the following formula: Moncrief Photograph Collection, ID #, Mississippi Department of Archives & History, [http://www.mdah.state.ms.us]
- Original Collection:
- Moncrief (Winfred) Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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