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[Original 1966 Press Photograph of the Shooting of James Meredith]
[Original 1966 Press Photograph of the Shooting of James Meredith]
An original 1966 AP wire photograph capturing James Meredith lying wounded on the side of Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi after having been shot by a sniper named James Aubrey Norvell on the second day of his (Meredith's) March Against Fear protest, a solitary journey he intended to make on foot between Memphis, Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi in support of African-American voting rights.
The photograph is credited with the initials "jrt," or Jack Randolph Thornell, a New Orleans-bureau Associated Press photographer who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in Photography for his image of Meredith's immediate reaction to the shooting, captured mere moments before the present scene.
The shooting drew widespread attention and prompted myriad groups within the civil rights movement to descend on Mississippi and continue the March in his name. It is seen as a pivotal moment in the movement's transition from non-violence to militancy in the late-1960's.
A remarkable and scarce surviving photograph.
THORNELL, Jack Randolph (photographer) : [Civil Rights] : [Voting Rights] : [Photography]. [James Meredith Press Photograph]. Hernando, Mississippi: Associated Press, (1966). Approximately 9" x 7" darkroom print from a wire negative on single weight photo paper stock incorporating a typed caption at lower margin. Ink notation to verso: "6/66 / MEREDITH, JAMES." Mild toning to blank verso, otherwise near fine.
An original 1966 AP wire photograph capturing James Meredith lying wounded on the side of Highway 51 near Hernando, Mississippi after having been shot by a sniper named James Aubrey Norvell on the second day of his (Meredith's) March Against Fear protest, a solitary journey he intended to make on foot between Memphis, Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi in support of African-American voting rights.
The photograph is credited with the initials "jrt," or Jack Randolph Thornell, a New Orleans-bureau Associated Press photographer who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in Photography for his image of Meredith's immediate reaction to the shooting, captured mere moments before the present scene.
The shooting drew widespread attention and prompted myriad groups within the civil rights movement to descend on Mississippi and continue the March in his name. It is seen as a pivotal moment in the movement's transition from non-violence to militancy in the late-1960's.
A remarkable and scarce surviving photograph.
THORNELL, Jack Randolph (photographer) : [Civil Rights] : [Voting Rights] : [Photography]. [James Meredith Press Photograph]. Hernando, Mississippi: Associated Press, (1966). Approximately 9" x 7" darkroom print from a wire negative on single weight photo paper stock incorporating a typed caption at lower margin. Ink notation to verso: "6/66 / MEREDITH, JAMES." Mild toning to blank verso, otherwise near fine.