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- Title
- Dr. King hails arrests in Mississippi.
- Description
- 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)
- Creator Name(s)
- United Press International. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, circa December 4, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- 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.
- Topical Subject(s)
- 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.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Mississippi, Meridian., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (State), New York., New York (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--New York
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31907; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-31907
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356692
- Title
- 21 white men arrested in slaying of rights workers.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: PC-31898 21 WHITE MEN ARRESTED IN SLAYING OF RIGHTS WORKERS MERIDIAN, Miss. -- Miss Esther Carter (seated), U.S. Commissioner, arraigns 18 of the 21 white men arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in connection with the slaying of three civil rights workers last June 21 near Philadelphia, Miss. In the group -- said to include many members of the Ku Klux Klan -- was Edgar Ray Killen, described as a fundamentalist Free Will Baptist minister and part-time farmer and sawmill worker. Also arrested were Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence A. Rainey (front row, in open officer’s jacket) and his deputy, Cecil Price. The arraignment was at the Naval Air Base near Meridian, Miss. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-12B-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, December 4, 1964, December 4, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Mississippi Freedom Project., Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964--Assassination., Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964--Assassination., Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964--Assassination., Carter, Esther., Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Killen, Edgar Ray., Rainey, Lawrence A., Price, Cecil.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Civil rights movements--United States., Arraignment--Mississippi--Meridian., Domestic terrorism--Mississippi--Philadelphia.
- Geographic subjects
- United States., Mississippi, Meridian., Mississippi, Philadelphia., Meridian Naval Air Station (Miss.), North and Central America--United States--Mississippi--Lauderdale--Meridian
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. PC-31898; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_PC-31898
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356691
