- Collection:
- The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Title:
- Jesse Jackson in Laurens
- Creator:
- The State Media Company (Columbia, S.C.)
Stelter, Linda - Date of Original:
- 1996-03-18
- People:
- Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
- Location:
- United States, South Carolina, Laurens County, 34.48357, -82.00593
United States, South Carolina, Laurens County, Laurens, 34.49901, -82.01426 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- Jesse Jackson speaks with reporters outside the New Beginnings Missionary Baptist Church in Laurens, S.C. regarding the existence in the town of a Ku Klux Klan museum and store known as the Redneck Shop. Jackson and others object to the racist nature of the items on display and for sale in the store.
- Local Identifier:
- state_163_0003
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm16817.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16817coll21/id/7993
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright The State Media Company. All rights reserved. For more information, contact the Walker Local and Family History Center at Richland Library, Columbia, S.C. 29201.
- Original Collection:
- Box 163, Jesse Jackson, The State Newspaper Photograph Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Richland Library
- Rights:
-
