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| Title: | Freedom school class |
| Date: | 1964 |
| Description: | A group of African-American and white students and teachers participating in a Freedom School class. 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: | African Americans--Civil rights | Civil rights movements--Mississippi | Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century | Segregation in public education--Mississippi | Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi | Civil rights workers--Mississippi | Students--Mississippi | Mississippi Freedom Schools | Mississippi |
| Collection: | Wisconsin Historical Images |
| Institution: | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Contributors: | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Online Publisher: | [Madison, Wis.] : Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Original Material: | Staughton Lynd papers, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Rights and Usage: | This image is part of the Staughton Lynd Collection which includes papers and photographs from the leftist historian and labor lawyer who was prominent in both the civil rights and the anti-war movements. The majority of the papers cover the mid-1960's to the early 1970's, with the emphasis on the varied social movements and radical activities with which he was affiliated rather than on Lynd himself. Articles and writings, correspondence, and clippings and other printed matter refer to campus protests of the 1960's; civil rights; the Vietnam War; tax reform; the Kennedy assassination; Jobs or Income Now (JOIN), a group which sought to organize the poor in Chicago; union organizing, especially among public employees in the Chicago and Gary, Indiana, area; the Mass Party Organizing Committee, a group which attempted to formulate a mass, Leninist, working-class party; and the New American Movement, a group which sought to build a mass-based democratic socialist movement in the United States. This image is issued by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Use of the image requires written permission from the staff of the Division of Library-Archives. It may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media. The image should not be significantly altered through conventional or electronic means. Images altered beyond standard cropping and resizing require further negotiation with a staff member. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright. Please Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of the Wisconsin Historical Images collection (Wisconsin Historical Society) |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=1854 |
