- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., sitting behind the podium during a meeting at Maggie Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1968-02
- Subject:
- African American clergy--Alabama--Montgomery
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery
African American churches--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery
Mass meetings--Alabama--Montgomery
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980
Poor People's Campaign
Maggie Street Missionary Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.) - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
negatives (photographs) - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A clock on the wall advertises Ross Jewelers, on Dexter Avenue at Perry Street. This image was taken for (but not used in) an article ("'Things Are Not Right in This Country'--King" by V. English, B. Wilcox and B. Labaree) and photo spread ("Rallying Support for Poor People's Stay in Washington") that appeared on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for February 24-25, 1968. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No08_1968_02_24.pdf
- Local Identifier:
- Q19728
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/6637
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:6637/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James, Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection, Box Notebook 4, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
