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Photographic Carrier

Carrier No: 4756-1-1

Component: 4756-1 John Lewis and Jim Zwerg after an attack by a mob during the Freedom Rides

Work: 4756  John Lewis and Jim Zwerg after an attack by a mob during the Freedom Rides

Item Id: 24474

Format: Photographic

Rack No: 75000

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8" X 10" black and white photograph of John Lewis and James Zwerg splattered with blood after being beaten by a mob in Montgomery, Alabama. Zwerg stands at right and looks to left of photo; Lewis stands at left and looks to the right of the photographer. A caption reads: "MGPO5206106-5/20/61 -MONTGOMERY, Ala.: Negro student John Lewis of Troy, Ala., a student at American Baptist Seminary in Nashville, Tenn. talks with James Zwerg, 21, of Nashville who was brutally beaten here today. Both are members of the racially-mixed "freedom fighters [sic]" who rode a Greyhound bus into this former capital of the confederacy. (UPI Telephoto)."