Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of five African American women and a child crossing Pearl Street and carrying protest signs during a demonstration for welfare rights, Jackson, Mississippi, 1960s
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@ Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
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Demonstrators holding welfare rights placards cross East Pearl StreetThe Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Children
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Social Reformers
- African American Women
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Demonstrations
- Jackson
- Mississippi
- Pearl Street (Jackson, Miss.)
- Signs And Signboards
- Streets
- Welfare Rights Movement
- Women
- Women Civil Rights Workers
- Women Social Reformers