Mississippi Delta residents await their turn to start the process of registering to vote. Encouraging the impoverished residents of the state to take advantage of their voting rights is a key phase of the National Council of Churches' Delta Ministry. | Text transcribed from original caption: Mississippi Delta Negroes await their turn to start the process of registering to vote. Encouraging the impoverished residents of the state to take advantage of their voting rights is a key phase of the National Council of Churches' Delta Ministry.

Hilton, Bruce. (photographer)

1966

still image

photographs

photograph : color ; 8 x 10 inches

Delta Ministry of Mississippi.
Religious News Service--Archives.

African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi--20th century.
Voter registration--Mississippi--20th century.

Mississippi
20th century.
Mississippi.
North and Central America--United States--Mississippi

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 34155; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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