Antioch Church (Blue Mountain, Miss.) after reconstruction (view of the front and spire)

Item Information

Title:
Antioch Church (Blue Mountain, Miss.) after reconstruction (view of the front and spire)
Description:
The church was burned in October 1964 after announcing that Fannie Lou Hamer would speak there on civil rights. From a series of photos taken by civil rights worker Marjorie Merrill during and after Mississippi Freedom Summer.
Photographer:
Merrill, Marjorie
Date:
[ca. 1965]
Format:
Photographs
Prints
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Gelatin silver prints
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers
Series:
Series 4. Photographs
Subjects:
African American churches--Mississippi--Ripley--Photographs
Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Photographs
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church (Blue Mountain, Miss
Places:
Mississippi > Tippah (county) > Ripley
Extent:
1 photograph ; 13 x 9 cm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums865-s04m-i026
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Blue Mountain (Miss.)
Identifier:
mums865-s04m-i026