Title Work

Title No: 15098

Title: Freedom School sign, Indianola, Mississippi

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph

Date: 1964 (Created)

Close up on sign at the Indianola Freedom School. Graphic shows joined black and white hands and has the words, "INDIANOLA FREEDOM SCHOOL." This school was one of the Freedom Schools set up during the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign in Mississippi. 

Photo taken during the filming of "A Regular Bouquet," a documentary film by Richard Beymer on the activities of volunteers and residents during the Mississippi Summer Project, 1964. 

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Subjects: African Americans--Suffrage--History--20th century; Mississippi; Mississippi--Social conditions; Civil rights workers--Mississippi; Suffrage--Mississippi; African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.; African Americans--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century; Mississippi Freedom Project; Freedom Schools (Miss.); African Americans--Suffrage- Mississippi.; African Americans--Civil rights- Mississippi; Mississippi--Race relations