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Man, possibly Dr. Albert B. Britton, speaking at a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty at the Heidelberg Hotel in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Peppler, Jim

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Britton served as the chairman of the Mississippi State Advisory Committee to the United States Civil Rights Commission. The hearings were conducted by Senators Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph S. Clark, George Murphy, and Jacob Javits. This image was taken for (but not used in) an article ("Senators Told of Poverty" by Patricia James) and photo spread ("U.S. Senators Meet the People") that appeared on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for April 15-16, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No16_1967_04_15.pdf

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Alabama. Department of Archives and History

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Physicians
  2. African Americans
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Economic Assistance, Domestic
  5. Economic Conditions
  6. Government
  7. Heidelberg Hotel (Jackson, Miss.)
  8. Jackson
  9. Legislative Hearings
  10. Mississippi
  11. Politics And Government
  12. Poverty
  13. United States
  14. United States Commission On Civil Rights. Mississippi Advisory Committee
  15. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee On Labor And Public Welfare. Subcommittee On Employment, Manpower, And Poverty

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