- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Thomas Gilmore speaking to an audience at First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1968-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Eutaw
First Baptist Church (Eutaw, Ala.)
African American churches--Alabama--Eutaw
African American clergy--Alabama--Eutaw
African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Eutaw
African Americans--Alabama--Eutaw--Politics and government
Direct action--Alabama--Eutaw
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Alabama
Mass meetings--Alabama--Eutaw - People:
- Gilmore, Thomas E.
Coleman, Johnny - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Greene County, 32.85314, -87.95223
United States, Alabama, Greene County, Eutaw, 32.84059, -87.88762 - Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
negatives (photographs) - Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gilmore was the first African American sheriff of Greene County. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article "People Ask Prisoner's Release" by Jim Peppler, which appeared on page 1 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:
- Q25152
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/7333
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:7333/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James, Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection, Box Notebook 3, Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama.
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
