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File Description
| Alt ID: | rand0175 |
| Title: | Lelyveld beating |
| Author: | Randall, Herbert, 1936- |
| Subject and Keywords: | Civil rights movements |
| Subject and Keywords: | Civil rights workers |
| Subject and Keywords: | Hattiesburg (Miss.) |
| Subject and Keywords: | Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913- |
| Subject and Keywords: | Mississippi Freedom Project |
| Subject and Keywords: | Violence |
| Subject and Keywords: | Voter registration |
| Description: | Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld shortly after he and fellow voter registration volunteers Lawrence Spears and David Owen were attacked by two Caucasian men from Collins, Mississippi. The assault took place at 11:30 a.m. on July 10, 1964, as they were walking to Morning Star Baptist Church with Hattiesburg resident Janet Crosby and another young African-American woman after a morning of voter registration canvassing. This photograph was published the following day on the front page of the New York Journal American under the banner headline "The Beaten Rabbi / Racists Did This". |
| Publisher: | University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version) |
| Other Contributors: | Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 1964-07-10 (original) |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 2001-04-12 (digital reproduction) |
| Resource Type: | Image |
| Format: | (Extent) Digital reproduction of 1 black-and-white photograph. |
| Source: | Box 2, Folder 2 M351-175 |
| Relation: | IsPartOf M351 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs. |
| Relation: | IsPartOf the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. |
| Coverage: | (Time Period) July 10, 1964 |
| Rights: | Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |