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From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. Bob Moses stands at the podium. Dr. Aaron Henry and an unidentified African-American woman are seated to his right.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; Black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Aaron Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist in the 1960s. Involved in numerous civil rights organizations, he served as chairman of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) during Freedom Summer 1964. His drug store was considered a local "hangout" for COFO workers in Clarksdale.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Dr. Aaron Henry, presumably inside the doctor's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist in the 1960s.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of Noelle Michael Henry, wife of Dr. Aaron Henry. The photograph was presumably taken inside Dr. Henry's pharmacy in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Dr. Henry was a prominent African-American civil rights activist in the 1960s.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) convention in Jackson, Mississippi. People seated in the audience hold signs displaying the names of counties in Mississippi where Freedom volunteers were located.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of local African-American children making freedom chains at the Clarksdale (MS) community center.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of nine civil rights workers at a staff meeting in Clarksdale, Mississippi. A poster in a window in the background reads, "No U.S. Dough to Help Jim Crow Grow"; The staff includes volunteers working for the Mississippi Freedom Project. From left to right: two unidentified persons, Lew Sitzer, Bob Mandel, possibly Les Johnson, Yvonne Klein with her head down, Margie (Margaret) Hazelton, Matt Zwerling, and Lafayette Surney with his back to the camera.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of three African Americans at "the 'table'" inside Dr. ("Doc") Aaron Henry's drugstore on 4th Street in Clarksdale, Mississippi. From left to right: Rayford [first name unknown], an unidentified female and Noelle Michael Henry, wife of Dr. Aaron Henry.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of four unidentified African-American children seated at a table in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified African-American teenage girls exercising in the community center in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph taken of six Freedom Summer workers in a church in Clarksdale, Mississippi. From left to right: Rev. Rayford's son [first name unknown], an unidentified woman, C.T. Vivian (?), Noelle Michael Henry, Ms. Piggee [first name unknown] and Rev. Frazer Thomason.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified African American males on a break from chopping cotton in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a chicken in a makeshift coop in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of two unidentified men standing outside the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) office in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

From the Hazelton (Margaret J.) Freedom Summer Collection; One black-and-white photograph, taken by Rev. Frazer Thomason, of a local African-American youth standing behind benches draped with "freedom chains" at a carnival in Clarksdale, Mississippi.