• Following a performance of In White America by the Free Southern Theater, actors, singers and residents of Hattiesburg join hands and sing “We Shall Overcome” in True Light Baptist Church. The Free Southern Theater toured throughout Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. McCain Library and Archives, The University of Southern Mississippi. Randall (Herbert) Freedom Summer photograph.

Photo of performance in Hattiesburg

From Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City by Robert Darden

Subjects
  • Religion
  • General Interest
  • Music
  • History
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