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'I didn't leave without the picture.' Jack Thornell of Metairie captured iconic Civil Rights images

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To get the photographs, he jumped over church pews during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral, snuck into a cordoned off neighborhood to witness a Biloxi school integration and risked threats at knifepoint for snapping a photo of a racist sheriff.

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'I didn't leave without the picture.' Jack Thornell of Metairie captured iconic Civil Rights images

To get the photographs, he jumped over church pews during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral, snuck into a cordoned off neighborhood to witness a Biloxi school integration and risked threats at knifepoint for snapping a photo of a racist sheriff.

·New Orleans, United States
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Nola broke the news in New Orleans, United States on Sunday, May 17, 2026.
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