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| Creator: | Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission |
| Title: | Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Bennie McGee (right) and David Doggett (left) carrying protest signs during a demonstration led by Millsaps College students following the police shooting of Benjamin Brown, 1967 May 11 [sic] |
| Date: | 1967 May |
| Description: | Millsaps students protest death of JSU student Ben Brown Individual(s) identified in the photograph include McGee, Bennie; Doggett, David The date assigned to this photograph is May 11, 1967, however, Benjamin Brown was shot during a demonstration on the evening of May 11 and died later the following day. Therefore, the date of the demonstration represented in this photograph is unknown, but took place sometime after May 12, 1967. Classified by the Sovereignty Commission as (Name)--School Integration 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: | Doggett, David Long | McGee, Bennie | Brown, Benjamin, d. 1967 | Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Jackson | Demonstrations--Mississippi--Jackson | Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Jackson | Social reformers--Mississippi--Jackson | Student movements--Mississippi--Jackson | Students--Mississippi--Jackson | Murder--Mississippi--Jackson | Millsaps College | Jackson State University | Men, White--Mississippi--Jackson | Signs and signboards | Streets--Mississippi--Jackson | Automobiles--Mississippi--Jackson | Mississippi | Hinds County (Miss.) | Jackson (Miss.) |
| Collection: | Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs |
| Institution: | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Contributors: | Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History ; Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online collection (Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History) |
| Online Publisher: | [Jackson (Miss.)] : Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History | 2002 |
| Original Material: | from Millsaps College, Sovereignty Commission records, Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
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| Related Materials: | Forms part of Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006 |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/sovcom/sovcomphoto/photo.php?display=item&oid=456 |
