Straw hat worn during the 1966 March Against Fear
About the work
Straw hat with a cloth band around the crown. The cloth band is multi-colored with blue and green stripes and the word [FREEDOM] written around it in white letters that have the background colors showing through.
The March Against Fear was a major 1966 demonstration in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Activist James Meredith invited only individual black men to join him on June 5, 1966, intending to make a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, a distance of 220 miles, to counter the continuing racism in the Mississippi Delta after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the previous two years and to encourage African Americans in the state to register to vote.
Straw hat worn during the 1966 March Against Fear is available in the public domain via Creative Commons .
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of John T. Cumbler | Source: Smithsonian Learning Lab
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