White civil rights worker playing guitar on the front steps of the Freedom House (Marjorie Merrill, 2d from left)

Item Information

Title:
White civil rights worker playing guitar on the front steps of the Freedom House (Marjorie Merrill, 2d from left)
Description:
Three African American women and white woman looking as unidentified man plays guitar. From a series of photos taken by civil rights worker Marjorie Merrill during and after Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Date:
[ca. 1965]
Format:
Photographs
Prints
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Gelatin silver prints
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers
Series:
Series 4. Photographs
Subjects:
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Photographs
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Photographs
Guitarists--Mississippi--Holly Springs--Photographs
Mississippi Freedom Schools--Photographs
Merrill, Marjorie
Places:
Mississippi > Marion (county) > Holly Springs
Extent:
1 photograph ; 6.5 x 9 cm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums865-s04m-i003
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Holly Springs (Miss.)
Identifier:
mums865-s04m-i003