William Edwin Jones pushes daughter Renee Andrewnetta Jones (8 months old) during protest, Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, 1950s. Photograph: Ernest C Withers.
William Jones, a librarian at Memphis’s Owen Junior College, made this sign himself. His wife, who was active in the civil rights movement, encouraged him to march that day. Renee had been told the march that day was for fathers and daughters. The NAACP organisers did not want whole families to picket together, for fear of violence, so her mother and brother stayed home.
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