Dr. King hails arrests in Mississippi.
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31907 DR. KING HAILS ARRESTS IN MISSISSIPPI NEW YORK -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., hailed the arrest of 21 white men in Mississippi in connection with the slaying of three civil rights workers as a “first step toward justice” which renewed his faith in democracy. The Baptist clergyman and 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his advocacy of nonviolence in the civil rights effort displays photographs of the three young men slain last June 21 near Philadelphia, Miss. They are (from left to right): Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-12B-64-NBM)
United Press International. (publisher)
1964 circa December 4, 1964
still image
photographs
photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 9 inches
Religious News Service--Archives. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. Mississippi Freedom Project. Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964--Assassination. Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964--Assassination. Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964--Assassination.
Civil rights movements--United States. Arraignment--Mississippi--Meridian. Press conferences--New York (State)--New York. Nobel Prize winners--New York (State)--New York. Civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York. African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--New York.
United States. Mississippi Meridian. New York (State) New York. New York (N.Y.) North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.
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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31907; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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