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James Meredith seated beside the podium during the rally in front of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, at the end of the "March Against Fear" he began.

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Peppler, Jim

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Meredith began the march on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, but he was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out and was not able to rejoin it until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf
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1966 June 26
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection

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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  4. Civil Rights Leaders
  5. Jackson (Miss.)
  6. Meredith, James, 1933

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