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| Creator: | Moncrief, Winfred H., 1923- |
| Title: | Sessums Trial, May 1968 |
| Date: | 1968 May |
| Description: | March 1968, Forrest County Circuit Court (Hattiesburg, Miss.) trial of Cecil V. Sessum for the January 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer and the firebombing of his house and store. Sessum greeted by wife, Mary, outside the jail, surrounded by unidentified escort and reporters. This photograph appeared on page one of the March 11, 1968, Hattiesburg American. 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. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Sessum, Cecil V. | Sessum, Cecil V.--Family | Sessum, Cecil V.--Trials, litigation, etc. | Sessum, Mary | Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966--Assassination | Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Mississippi | Trials (Murder)--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | African American civil rights workers--Violence against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | African American civil rights workers--Crimes against--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Arson--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Courthouses--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Reporters and reporting--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Trials--Press coverage--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Civil rights movements--Press coverage--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Women--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Wives--Mississippi--Hattiesburg | Hattiesburg (Miss.) | Forrest County (Miss.) |
| Collection: | Moncrief photograph collection |
| Institution: | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Contributors: | Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History | Moncrief Photograph Collection (Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History) |
| Online Publisher: | Jackson, Miss. : Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Library & Archives | 2007 |
| Original Material: | Moncrief (Winfred) Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of Moncrief Photograph Collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/moncrief/image.php?display=item&item=711 |
