A man stands inside the ruins of a church building. When printed in the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund Report, vol. II, no. 1, this photograph bore the following caption: 'McComb, Miss.: The Society Hill Missionary Baptist Church, almost demolished September 20th, is one of 36 Negro churches bombed or burned in Mississippi this year. It had been used as a Freedom School. The arrests of over 75 McComb Negroes followed shortly after this incident and the bombing of the home of Mrs. Alyene Quin the same night... The Pike County sheriff later told Rev. Taylor, pastor of the bombed church, 'You niggers is just bombing one another.'
State
Mississippi
Place
McComb
Subject
church buildings
Event Date
1964-08-20
Year
1964
Month
September
Day
20
Language
English
Source
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party : Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Records, 1962-1971
Format
image
Publisher-Electronic
Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic
2013
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