Franklynn Peterson Photography Collection

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Born in a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Wisconsin in 1938, Franklynn Peterson first committed to the civil rights movement as a student at the University of Wisconsin, leading pickets at Madison stores in support of the student sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1960, he moved with his family to Brooklyn, where he joined Brooklyn CORE and documented the rent strikes in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A self-described creative activist and “fighter in print,” Peterson’s photojournalism is focused on injustice and those who fight against it, including memorable portraits of Fannie Lou Hamer, Shirley Chisolm, Jesse Jackson and coal miners in Bethlehem, PA. He is a member of the Black Star Photo Agency and his photos have been published in Sepia magazine, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, Popular Science and Ave Maria.

Peterson took the photos in this collection during the two-day Bogalusa to Franklinton March on July 23-24, 1967. Led by A.Z. Young, Gayle Jenkins, Robert Hicks and Lincoln Lynch of CORE, the march was intended to call out the “double standard of justice” and lack of prosecutions in the murders of Oneal Moore and Clarence Triggs, and shooting of Army Captain Donald Ray Sims. It marked a decided shift in the Bogalusa civil rights movement toward Black Power. At the rally in Franklinton, Lynch declared: “There’s a new movement afoot. It’s not civil rights any longer, it’s the movement of revolution.” The collection includes rare photos of Deacons for Defense George Skiffer and Bertran Wyre.
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A.Z. Young resting along the Bogalusa to Franklinton March
A.Z. Young resting along the Bogalusa to Franklinton March
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Franklinton (La.)
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A.Z. Young resting along the Bogalusa to Franklinton March. At the rally in Franklinton, Young addressed the crowd about the recent acquittals of Klan members charged in the murder of Clarence Triggs: “There is a penalty for killing birds out of season, but there is never any penalty for killing a Negro. There has never been a white man convicted of killing a Negro in the history of Washington Parish.”
Bertran Wyre at the Bogalusa to Franklinton March
Bertran Wyre at the Bogalusa to Franklinton March
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Portrait of Bogalusa Deacon for Defense Bertran Wyre at the Bogalusa to Franklinton March. Wyre was one of the original members of the Bogalusa Deacons. He came to defend Robert Hicks and his family on the night of February 1, 1965 and stayed to protect them for the next four years. Robert Hicks recalled: "The only time he would go home was to change clothes. He stayed in my house, slept in my house, sometimes wake up in the morning with just me and him and my wife, all three of us laying down across the bed, asleep in our clothes." Original title: "Black Moses."
George Skiffer at Bogalusa to Franklinton March
George Skiffer at Bogalusa to Franklinton March
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Franklinton (La.)
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Portrait of Bogalusa Deacon for Defense George Skiffer at the Bogalusa to Franklinton March. He is sporting a Lowndes County Freedom Organization poster, with imagery that was later adopted by the Black Panther Party. Original title: "Move On Over This Time."
Marchers leaving Bogalusa to Franklinton March
Marchers leaving Bogalusa to Franklinton March
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Original title: "After Bogalusa-Franklinton March"
Rally at Franklinton Courthouse
Rally at Franklinton Courthouse
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Rally at the Washington Parish Courthouse following the Bogalusa to Franklinton March. In back row, Robert Hicks (far left, wiping his face); Fletcher Anderson (in overalls); A.Z. Young (hat and sunglasses); Lincoln Lynch (center, looking down); Barbara Barnes (white blouse, towel over her shoulder). Original photo title: "We Shall Overcome & Overcome & Overcome..."
White family watching Bogalusa to Franklinton March
White family watching Bogalusa to Franklinton March
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Original title: "Flowers of White Southern Womanhood"
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