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0994624
Title
Guarding Community Center
Caption
Mileston, MS: June 1964. Community Center Construction, Freedom summer 1964. Mileston Summer volunteer carpenter, Jim Boebel, and a local resident post a shotgun watch at the community center against a fire bomb threat by local whites. Threats were common that summer and local men took turns guarding the community every night.
Date
1964-06-01
Location
Mileston, Mississippi
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Credit
© 1976, Matt Herron / TakeStock
0994624
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