Text transcribed from caption: PC-34393 RIGHTS LEADERS PUSHED OFF ROAD HERNANDO, Miss. -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other Negro civil rights leaders, are pushed off the road at they resume a voters march begun by James Meredith. Later they continued their walk, marching single file along the highway’s shoulder. Mr. Meredith was short from ambush by a white man as he was marching from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, capital of Mississippi, in an effort to encourage Negro voting in the state’s primary election. Religious leaders were quick to condemn the shooting and called for greater efforts in behalf of Negro voting rights. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (B-6B-66-NAB)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1966
June 1966

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hernando.
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Hernando.
Voter registration--Mississippi.
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Baptists.
Clergy--Mississippi--Hernando.
African American clergy--Mississippi--Hernando.
Police--Mississippi--Hernando.

United States.
Mississippi
Hernando.
Mississippi.
United States
Hernando (Miss.)
North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--DeSoto--Hernando

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-34393; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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