Contact Sheets
After taking photographs, Schapiro would develop the roll of film, split the negatives and print them as contact sheets. This would allow him to view […]
Photography Catalog
Contact Sheets
After taking photographs, Schapiro would develop the roll of film, split the negatives and print them as contact sheets. This would allow him to view […]
Civil Rights Worker’s Station Wagon, Philadelphia, Mississippi
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwener were missing for two days when two Native Americans of the Choctaw Tribe, who were fishing in a […]
Boys Laughing on Bridge, Philadelphia, Mississippi
After spending a week photographing the Freedom Summer training in Oxford, OH, Steve Schapiro traveled down to Philadelphia, MS, to document the ongoing investigation into […]
Contact Sheets
After taking photographs, Schapiro would develop the roll of film, split the negatives and print them as contact sheets. This would allow him to view […]
Rita Schwerner, Meridian Mississippi
Rita Schwerner (now Schwerner-Bender) was a founding member of the downtown New York City chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She was the […]
Search for Civil Rights Workers
After more than 6 weeks without any leads, the FBI agents investigating the disappearances of Chaney, Goodman and Schwener received a tip from a highway […]
Chaney Family Waiting to Hear About Their Son
Before their bodies were found on August 4, 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner had been missing in Neshoba County, MS, for over […]
Freedom Now, “Summer of ’64,” Meridian, Mississippi
After training in Oxford, OH, volunteers were sent to postings across the South, including the town of Meridian, MS. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), […]
Register and Vote
After the disappearance of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover remained indifferent until pressured by President Lyndon B. Johnson. […]