Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Gov. Ross Barnett at University of Mississippi
1962
Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black-and-white photograph of Governor Ross Barnet wearing a suit and hat walking toward a vehicle guarded by a Mississippi police officer. A crowd of white people clap and cheer from the other side of the vehicle.
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Catalog reference: 2012.169.3
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