- Collection:
- Moncrief photograph collection
- Title:
- Sessums Trial, May 1968
- Creator:
- Moncrief, Winfred H., 1923-
- Date of Original:
- 1968-05
- Subject:
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Mississippi
Trials (Murder)--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
African American civil rights workers--Violence against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
African American civil rights workers--Crimes against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Arson--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Courthouses--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Women--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Mothers--Mississippi--Hattiesburg - People:
- Sessum, Velma
Sessum, Cecil V.
Sessum, Cecil V.--Family
Sessum, Cecil V.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966--Assassination - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Forrest County, 31.18887, -89.25786
United States, Mississippi, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, 31.32712, -89.29034 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- March 1968, Forrest County Circuit Court (Hattiesburg, Miss.) trial of Cecil V. Sessum for the January 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer and the firebombing of his house and store. Cecil Sessum poses with his mother, Velma Sessum. This photograph appeared on page one of the March 15, 1968, Hattiesburg American.
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=803
- 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: