- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., seated 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:
- He is holding a handkerchief to his mouth. 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:
- Q20704
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/6655
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:6655/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:
-
