Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: MERRITT III, Vernon
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.243585

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten in pencil: THE [illegible] AIL S ABOUT EVENLY DIVIDED / FOR AND AGAINST THE PROJECT. / ONE PARCEL,, FROM THE STATES RIGHTS / PARTY CONTAINED VIOLENT THREATS / AND POSTERS SUGGESTING LYNCHING / AS A WAY TO CURB THE MOVEMENT. / THIS WAS ILLUSTRATED BY A HANGING MAN. (SEE pix); stamped in black ink: [star symbol] / Credit::; handwritten in blue ink: VERNON MERRITT; stamped in black ink; from BLACK STAR; handwritten in blue ink: 8; handwritten in pencil: Church Rebuilding; [orange mark from possible previous label or adhesive]; handwritten in pencil: 148-895;

Tagasauris Keywords: Architecture; Civil rights movement; Construction; Day; Full-Length Portrait; Group of people; Group of people; Low angle View; Lumber; Male; Mid adult; No Photostyle; Outdoors; Religion and belief; Social issues; Still Life
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: CIVIL RIGHTS / CHURCH REBUILDING MISSISSIPPI
Retouching: N