Skip to main content

Medgar Evers demonstrates against brutality in Jackson, Mississippi

Thumbnail for Medgar Evers demonstrates against brutality in Jackson, Mississippi
View
@ Washington University in Saint Louis

United Press International

Description

Medgar Evers, NAACP field secretary, and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP, are arrested for protesting beatings and arrests of civil rights demonstrators in Jackson, Mississippi. The two men are surrounded by white police officers. A white man in shirt and tie at right holds what appears to be a cattle prod in the direction of Evers and Wilkins. Evers has a sign on a string around his neck. The sign reads "END BRUTALITY IN JACKSON." The corner of the sign reads "NAACP." Wilkins' sign appears to have been seized by a policeman who writes on the back of it in the foreground. Shop names are visible in the background across the street.
Format:
Image
Rights:
United Press International
View Original At:

Record Contributed By

Washington University in Saint Louis

Record Harvested From

Missouri Hub

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Mississippi African Americans
  4. Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925 1963 Naacp Legal Defense And Educational Fund Wilkins, Roy, 1901 1981 Mississippi African Americans
  5. History
  6. Mississippi
  7. Mississippi. African Americans
  8. Mississippi. Mississippi
  9. Race Relations. African Americans
  10. Segregation Suffrage
  11. Suffrage
  12. United States

Related Content

Civil rights activists in Mississippi Voter registration in Mississippi Fannie Lou Hamer testifies about segregation to a committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City in August 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates, including Bob Moses, holding hands in a circle (praying) at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City. Interview with Robert Moses Interview with Hodding Carter III Freedom Vote in Mississippi Interview with Casey Hayden FBI Missing Poster Clip from Interview with Dave Dennis Interview with Unita Blackwell Interview with Dave Dennis Clip from Interview with Robert Moses Participants at an organizational meeting during Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964 A regular bouquet: Mississippi summer [director's cut] Group of young Mississippians in a Freedom School Roadside scene during Freedom Summer, Mississippi Participants at a meeting during Freedom Summer Students at a Freedom School during Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964 Group portrait of four boys during Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964
Download JSON