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Hankerson, Lester

Biography:

SCLC staff member arrested after a protest march in Grenada, Mississippi on October 24, 1967 and beaten while in custody.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
  • Joseph Lester Hankerson (Black-and-white photographs)
• Jack Rabin collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists (Penn State Special Collections Library)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Lester Hankerson taken at the time of his arrest in Grenada, Mississippi, 1966 October 28 (Black-and-white photographs)