The Freedom Summer Murders (1964) and Police Brutality

The Freedom Summer Murders (1964) and Police Brutality

New York (N.Y.)--Newspapers.
Civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights workers--United States
Hate crimes--United States
Hate crimes--Press coverage
Police brutality--United States

Photographs from the New York Journal-American Photo Morgue collection covering the case of three missing civil rights workers in Mississippi. The case later became known as the Freedom Summer Murders.

New York Journal-American

1964

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Philadelphia, Mississippi