Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Jo Ann [sic] Gavin walking on a sidewalk with other demonstrators carrying protest signs during a demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1960s
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@ Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Hargrove, Ralph H
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Demonstrators during the visit to Jackson by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara identified as Gavin, affiliated with Tougaloo College and two individuals from Mound BayouIndividual(s) identified in the photograph include Gavin, Jo Ann [sic]The name appears on the photograph as "Jo Ann Gavin" however, an alternative and more authoritative form of the name is "Joanne Gavin."The 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 Civil Rights Workers
- African American Men
- African American Political Activists
- African American Social Reformers
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Workers
- Demonstrations
- Jackson
- Men, White
- Mississippi
- Mound Bayou
- Political Activists
- Protest Movements
- Sidewalks
- Signs And Signboards
- Social Reformers
- Tougaloo College
- Vietnam War, 1961 1975
- Welfare Rights Movement
- Women
- Women Civil Rights Workers
- Women Social Reformers
- Women, White