Museum object · gelatin silver prints
Black Delegates Challenge Mississippi Democrats
1964
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of Ella Baker speaking into a microphone and gesturing with her left hand. In the background there is a large portrait of Michael ‘Mickey’ Schwerner.
- Catalog date
- 1964
- Recorded places
- Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Recorded subjects
- African American; Civil Rights; Oratory; Photography; Politics; Suffrage; U.S. History, 1961-1969
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: 2012.107.2
Collection: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
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