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Man lying his tent, looking out the front flap: signs reading 'Strike City Mississippi' and 'Houses not tents,' statue of Lafayette in the background Strike City Mississippi tent encampment
1966-04
Scherman, Rowland
From a series of images of the Strike City Mississippi, in which sharecroppers set up a tent city on Lafayette Square, opposite the White House, to protest being thrown off their land near Leland, Miss., for registering to vote and for striking for higher wages. After spending the winter in a self-help cooperative in Mississippi, they came to Washington to lobby for federal aid. Life Magazine ref. no. 75485.
- Title:
- Man lying his tent, looking out the front flap: signs reading 'Strike City Mississippi' and 'Houses not tents,' statue of Lafayette in the background Strike City Mississippi tent encampment
- Creator:
- Scherman, Rowland
- Date Created:
- 1966-04
- Description:
From a series of images of the Strike City Mississippi, in which sharecroppers set up a tent city on Lafayette Square, opposite the White House, to protest being thrown off their land near Leland, Miss., for registering to vote and for striking for higher wages. After spending the winter in a self-help cooperative in Mississippi, they came to Washington to lobby for federal aid. Life Magazine ref. no. 75485.
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- Digital Commonwealth
- Contributing Institution:
- Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
- Subjects:
- Poor persons--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Tents--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Civil rights movements--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs
Demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--Photographs - Type:
- image
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- PhotographsBlack-and-white photographsBlack-and-white negativesManuscripts
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Copyright Rowland Scherman. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.