File:March, King, April 8, 1968..jpg
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Collection: Moncrief Photograph Collection Call number: PI/1994.0005 System ID: 95242. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=95242">Link to the catalog</a>
April 8, 1968, Hattiesburg (Miss.) march in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., four days after his death. According to a Hattiesburg American article that day, approximately 1,500 marchers started at East Sixth and Mobile Streets, stopped at City Hall for a prayer service, continued to the Forrest County courthouse for a silent prayer, then returned to East Sixth and Mobile Streets. The march coincided with a week-long boycott of schools and white-owned businesses and a 3-day work stoppage.
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Scanned as TIFF in 2005-07-27 by MDAH.
Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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| current | 10:16, 16 January 2017 | | 2,828 × 4,223 (1.23 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p><b>Collection: </b>Moncrief Photograph Collection <b>Call number: </b>PI/1994.0005 <b>System ID: </b>95242. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=95242">Link to the catalog</a> </p> <p>April 8, 1968, Hattiesburg (Miss.) march in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., four days after his death. According to a Hattiesburg American article that day, approximately 1,500 marchers started at East Sixth and Mobile Streets, stopped at City Hall for a prayer service, continued to the Forrest County courthouse for a silent prayer, then returned to East Sixth and Mobile Streets. The march coincided with a week-long boycott of schools and white-owned businesses and a 3-day work stoppage. </p> <p>Please see our <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mississippi-dept-of-archives-and-history/">profile page</a> for information on ordering. </p> <p>Scanned as TIFF in 2005-07-27 by MDAH. </p> <p>Credit: Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History </p> |
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