Man lying his tent, looking out the front flap: signs reading 'Strike City Mississippi' and 'Houses not tents,' statue of Lafayette in the background : Strike City Mississippi tent encampment

Item Information

Title:
Man lying his tent, looking out the front flap: signs reading 'Strike City Mississippi' and 'Houses not tents,' statue of Lafayette in the background : Strike City Mississippi tent encampment
Description:
From a series of images of the Strike City Mississippi, in which sharecroppers set up a tent city on Lafayette Square, opposite the White House, to protest being thrown off their land near Leland, Miss., for registering to vote and for striking for higher wages. After spending the winter in a self-help cooperative in Mississippi, they came to Washington to lobby for federal aid. Life Magazine ref. no. 75485.
Photographer:
Scherman, Rowland
Date:
[ca. April 1966]
Format:
Photographs
Manuscripts
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Rowland Scherman Collection
Subjects:
Poor persons--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Tents--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Civil rights movements--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Places:
Massachusetts > Berkshire (county) > Washington
Extent:
1 photograph ; 35 mm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph084-b003-f051-sl001-i003
Terms of Use:
Copyright Rowland Scherman. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Washington (D.C.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph084-b003-f051-sl001-i003