Arthur Lelyveld after beating; July 10, 1964

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Identifier	mus.m351.0175p
Alternate ID	mus-rand0175
Title	Arthur Lelyveld after beating; July 10, 1964
Description	From the Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs; 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".
Creator	Randall, Herbert, 1936-
Date	10 July 1964
Coverage (time period)	10 July 1964
Subject	Civil rights movements. Civil rights workers. Hattiesburg (Miss.) Lelyveld, Arthur J., 1913- Mississippi Freedom Project. Randall, Herbert, 1936- Violence.
Mississippi county	Forrest County (Miss.)
Geographic location	Hattiesburg (Miss.)
Resource type	Image
Format	Digital reproduction of 1 black-and-white photograph.
Publisher	University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version)
Contributors	Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Notes	This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive.
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.
Contributing institution	Special Collections, McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi.
Collection	M351 Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer Photographs.
Source	Box 2, Folder 2 M351-175
Digital repository	University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections.
Digital collection	Historical Manuscripts and Photographs.
File size	337.188 KB
File extension	JPG
Width	1960
Height	1551
Color space	Grayscale
File name	rand0175.jpg

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