- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to an audience at Maggie Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1968-02
- Subject:
- WRMA (Radio station : Montgomery, Ala.)--Employees
Reporters and reporting--Alabama--Montgomery
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.)
African American journalists--Alabama--Montgomery - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Press coverage
Lumpkin, Norman, -2014 - 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:
- Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio, is holding up a microphone in front of the podium. A clock on the wall behind King 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:
- Q20702
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/6653
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:6653/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:
-
