Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-31274 RABBI BEATEN IN MISSISSIPPI VOTER
DRIVE HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Segregationists wielding metal bars attacked
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, Ohio, and two other white civil rights
workers for their voter registration work with Negroes at Hattiesburg, Miss.
He is shown leaving a hospital there after being treated for severe head and
body injuries. The rabbi is accompanied (left) by the Rev. Charles W.
Rawlings, director of the Cleveland Church Federation’s Office of Religion
and Race. The Hattiesburg voter registration campaign, supervised by the
National Council of Churches’ race commission, has been maintained since
last winter on an interreligious basis. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS
SERVICE PHOTO (W-NY-7C-64-NBM)
Creator:
Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913-1996., Rawlings, Charles W., Mississippi Freedom Project.
Topics:
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Judaism., Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Rabbis--Mississippi--Hattiesburg., Victims of violent crimes--Mississippi--Hattiesburg.
Geographic subjects:
Hattiesburg (Miss.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:350284