"Is Your Blood Boiling Over Mississippi?"

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This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall
"Is Your Blood Boiling Over Mississippi?"

The New Orleans Branch of the NAACP encouraged membership through print media. In this poster, the NAACP points to racial violence and political intimidation in the South as reasons to join the movement fighting for civil rights.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New Orleans Branch Collection (MSS 28), Louisiana and Special Collections, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans.

This file appears in: Sit-Ins and Marches at City Hall

By Courtney Carver & Lauren Smith
During the 1960s, Jim Crow laws confined Black New Orleanians to second class citizenship: white owned businesses, restaurants, hotels, and other establishments denied accommodations for Black customers. The City of New Orleans also enforced racial…