UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980
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Identifier
35160004356383
Creation Date
7-12-1963
Subject—Topics
Civil Rights Movement
Description
Washington: Charging that the current wave of civil rights agitation is Communist-inspired, Gov. Ross Barnett of Mississippi displays a poster-sized photograph which he claimed shows Negro leader Dr. Martin Luther King 'at a Communist training school.' The Governor made the charge in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee.
Format
BW Photograph, 9" x 7"
Source
United Press International
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Keywords
African Americans, history, United States, prejudice, desegregation, civil rights movement, Black Panthers