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Series Title: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives.

1964, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 32.5 x 22 cm (12 13/16 x 8 11/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2013.148
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic party was created in 1964 as an alternative to the regular state parties, from which blacks were excluded. Eighty thousand people joined. Here people vote in Mississippi, most for the first time in their lives.

1964, printed 2010

Danny Lyon

(American, 1942-)
America

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