Research Catalog

Title

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party activities at the 1964 Democratic National Convention / George Ballis.

Author

Ballis, George Elfie

Publication

©1978.

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Details

Description

• 11 itmes (one folder); 21 x 26 cm and smaller.
• 11 photographic prints : gelatin silver, black and white ;

Summary

Depictions of some of the individuals and activities associated with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) delegation's efforts to be seated at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Collection consists of views of MFDP organizer Robert Moses talking to the press on the convention floor and following a convention credentials committee meeting; MFDP delegate/activist Fannie Lou Hamer leading delegates in the singing of a freedom song; Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. addressing MFDP delegates at a rally on the Atlantic City Boardwalk; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and MFDP organizer Aaron Henry addressing the Convention's Credentials Committee; Aaron Henry and moderate MFDP delegates after splitting from the main MFDP delegation who voted down a compromise offered by Democratic Party officials; and MFDP delegates attempting to enter the convention floor and seat themselves.

Subject

• Moses, Robert Parris
• Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
• Hamer, Fannie Lou
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
• Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
• Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
• Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)
• African Americans > Civil rights
• African Americans political activists
• Political conventions > New Jersey > Atlantic City > 1960-1969

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1970-1979.
• Group portraits – 1970-1979.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1970-1979.

Note

• Title based on photo caption labels.
• All photographs bear photo caption labels, with photographer's name, descriptive information, and usage and copyright information, attached to verso.

Terms of Use (note)

• Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• George "Elfie" Ballis, 1925-2010, was a documentary photographer and activist best known for recording the working and living conditions of California's migrant farm workers, and Mexican American labor leader Cesar Chavez's efforts to organize them, during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, Ballis was part of a group of photographers in Mississippi, for the Southern Documentary Project, who chronicled the changes in the American South brought on by the civil rights movement. During the mid-1970s to 1990s, Ballis was an advocate for providing irrigation water rights to small farmers and low-cost housing for farm workers. By the late 1990s, Ballis was experimenting with digital video to make documentaries about labor activism.

Call Number

Sc Photo Portfolio (Ballis, G.)

OCLC

1277507882

Author

Ballis, George Elfie, photographer.

Title

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party activities at the 1964 Democratic National Convention / George Ballis.

Production

©1978.

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Terms Of Use

Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

George "Elfie" Ballis, 1925-2010, was a documentary photographer and activist best known for recording the working and living conditions of California's migrant farm workers, and Mexican American labor leader Cesar Chavez's efforts to organize them, during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, Ballis was part of a group of photographers in Mississippi, for the Southern Documentary Project, who chronicled the changes in the American South brought on by the civil rights movement. During the mid-1970s to 1990s, Ballis was an advocate for providing irrigation water rights to small farmers and low-cost housing for farm workers. By the late 1990s, Ballis was experimenting with digital video to make documentaries about labor activism.

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Sc Photo Portfolio (Ballis, G.)