Photographic Carrier Carrier No: 4756-1-1 Item Id: 24474 Rack No: 75000 Notes: 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)." |