"South Carolina Voices of the Civil Rights Movements" on the occasion of the opening of the "We'll Never Turn Back" [photographs], 1965-1982

Materials include five black and white photographs of a demonstration during the 1969 Charleston Hospital Strike with the bulk of the photos documenting the Charleston Police beating Dorothy Ann Richards; the photographs were taken by Elaine Tomlin. There is also a set of ten black and white photographs showing a variety of scenes from the Civil Rights Movement. The set of ten includes photographs of a 115 year old Black man being lifted by a crowd after registering to vote, a children's march in Greenwood, Alabama, a mule train leaving Mississippi for the Poor People's Campaign, the Selma to Montgomery March, riot police standing idly, the Meredith March with Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, and Kwame Ture walking in the front of the march, Martin Luther King, Jr. resting with marchers during the Meredith March, a peace march in San Francisco, the headquarters of the Lowndes County Alabama Freedom Organization, and a demonstrator in Harlem, New York. Photographs were provided to the Avery Institute of Afro-American History and Culture by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.