Title Work

Title No: 15125

Title: Participants at a meeting during Freedom Summer

Medium: Documentation

Original Medium: Photograph

Date: 1964 (Created)

Participants at a meeting during Freedom Summer, Mississippi. Perspective shows an over-the-shoulder shot of an African-American man standing in a circle where people are holding hands. 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; African Americans--Suffrage- Mississippi.; African Americans--Civil rights- Mississippi; Mississippi--Race relations