Feb 26, 2025
From left: Willie Ricks (Carmichael aide), Bernard Lee (Martin Luther King Jr. aide) Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Andy Young, Hosea Williams, Meredith March Against Fear, 1966.
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From left: Willie Ricks (Carmichael aide), Bernard Lee (Martin Luther King Jr. aide) Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Andy Young, Hosea Williams, Meredith March Against Fear, 1966.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and Willie Mukasa Ricks walk together during the March Against Fear. The March Against Fear was a major demonstration, originally launched on June 6, 1966 by activist James Meredith. Meredith started a solitary walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi. He did not want it to be a large media event dominated by major civil rights organizations and media. On the second day of his walk, Meredith was shot by a white gunman and was hospitalized. Vowing to carry on the march, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Human Rights Medical Committee took part, and the Deacons for Defense and Justice all converged.