Text transcribed from caption: PC-31203 NEGRO LEADERS CONFER WITH ATTORNEY GENERAL WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Negro leaders met with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (center) to discuss racial strife in Mississippi and the reported disappearance of three civil rights workers in that state. They are Bishop Stephen Spottswood of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, board chairman of the NAACP (right); and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the NAACP. Hundred of volunteer students are expected to work in voter registration projects or teach Negroes in “freedom schools” this summer in Mississippi. Many of them are being trained at one-week orientation courses through efforts of the National Council of Churches’ Commission on Religion and Race. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-6D-64-NAB)

United Press International. (publisher)

1964
June 24, 1964

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photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 9 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Spottswood, Stephen G. (Stephen Gill), 1897-1974.
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops.
Mississippi Freedom Project.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Meetings--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.)
Attorneys general--United States.
African American bishops--Washington (D.C.)
Bishops--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

United States.
Washington (D.C.)
Mississippi

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