James Meredith looks at his would-be assassin (extreme lower left in bushes) after being shot on a road near Hernando, Mississippi while leading a March Against Fear
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c American Photography
Enter Boycotted School: Five black youths, accompanied by several adults, arrive at formerly all-white Woodlawn High School in Plaquemines Parish
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c American Photography
Former black militant leader H. Rap Brown (above) and three co-defendants were convicted of the holdup of a New York City bar
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
New Orleans police face a crowd of taunting blacks as they move into the Desire Street Housing Project in New Orleans to evict black militants holding up in an apartment
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Black militant H. Rap Brown is escorted to federal court in New Orleans for resentencing on a federal gun control conviction
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Segregationist Leander Perez, Sr., President of the Plaquemines Parish Council, said he will defeat the Justice Department's attempt to desegregate schools in his parish, New Orleans
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Police frisk young black youths lined up against a fence. They were arrested following a shootout between police and Black Panthers in New Orleans.
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Byron De La Beckwith, Jr. smiles as he awaits the verdict in his trial in New Orleans on a federal firearms violation
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Former POW Lt. Colonel Bruce Seeber of West Monroe, Louisiana reaches for his wife Jane after arriving at Keesler Air Force Base at Biloxi, Mississippi
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Jack R. Thornell with the camera he used to record James Meredith and his assailant at the time Meredith was shot. Thornell just won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for news photography for that image.
Jack Thornell
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
20th c Photography
Black Bishop Harold R. Perry emerges from historic St. Louis Basilica in New Orleans, where he was consecrated during ceremonies today. He is the nation's only black Roman Catholic bishop.
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
20th c Photography
Florida Governor Claude Kirk arrives at Federal Court in New Orleans. He has motions in hand urging the court to block ordered desegregation for Manatee County schools.
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Three defendants named in a Justice Department suit that seeks to enjoin the Ku Klux Klan in Bogalusa, Louisiana leave Federal court in New Orleans
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
An unidentified white man is ushered into a police car by officers after he waved a piece of metal at black marchers during a demonstration in Bogalusa, Louisiana
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Leander Perez Sr., segregationist and President of the Plaquemines Parish Council, vowed in New Orleans to defeat the Justice Department's attempt to desegregate schools in Plaquemines Parish
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Mississippi National Guardsman push a stalled jeep in Natchez, Mississippi. Some 600 guardsmen patrol around the clock, hoping to head off any serious racial clashes
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
A black boy and girl walk down the entrance to Grenada High School under the protection of the Mississippi Highway Patrol
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Devours Nix is escorted by Federal agents after his arrest on Civil Rights charges stemming from the slaying of black leader Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr.
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Alton Wayne Roberts, one of seven men convicted of conspiracy in the deaths of three Civil Rights workers, gestures to news photographers as he leaves a motions hearing in Jackson, Mississippi.
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Alton Wayne Roberts, a defendant charged in Civil Rights slayings, exchanges comments with cameraman Laurens Pierce after they scuffled outside the Federal Building in Meridian, Mississippi
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Sergeant Wallace Miller of the Meridian Police waves to newsmen. He testified that he was a former Klan member who sold information about the slaying of three Civil Rights workers to the FBI.
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
Neshoba County Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price waited all day to testify before a federal grand jury at the Federal Building in Biloxi, Mississippi
Jack Thornell
Vintage wire photograph on paper
20th c Photography
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