This Manifesto of the Meredith Mississippi Freedom March was created on June 9, 1966. James Meredith began a solitary march from Memphis to Jackson on June 4, 1966 to point up continued obstacles for African Americans who wished to vote. When Meredith was shot and wounded on the second day, his journey was transformed into what one historian has called "the last great march of the civil rights years." This important document points up the ideological differences among different parts of the national Civil Rights Movement at the moment Black Power was being first conceptualized. Signed by Stokely Carmichael, of SNCC and by Dr. Martin Luther King, of SCLC, the document was not signed by Roy Wilkins, of the NAACP, and Whitney Young, of the Urban League. Young and Wilkins refused to sign because of the Manifesto's stridency and its laying of blame on President Lyndon Johnson.

Item information:
artifact
Created 1966-06-09 in Jackson, Mississippi
3 pages, 8x11



Archive information:
Tougaloo College Archive - T-90.20
Ed King Box 4 Folder 167, folder 167

Record 42

Brown University Tougaloo College STG