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Townsend, Karen

Biography:

Karen Townsend was a student at Tougaloo College during the 1960s when she, along with other students from the Jackson, Mississippi area, participated in an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration during a visit from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Karen Townsend, William Melish, Ilene Melish (left to right) and other unidentified demonstrators standing in front of a Western Union storefront during an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1967 February 24 (Black-and-white photographs)