Hazel Freeman Smith was an American journalist and publisher, the owner and editor of four weekly newspapers in rural Mississippi, mostly in Holmes County. Her newspapers included the Lexington Advert
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and later the Student National Coordinating Committee, was the principal channel of student commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement
John Lewis representing SNCC at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963
Fannie Lou Hamer (1964) speaks at a Democratic Convention regarding the plight of sharecroppers.