- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Ralph Abernathy getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1965-12
- Subject:
- African American children--Alabama--Eutaw
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
Mass meetings--Alabama--Eutaw - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Branch, William McKinley, 1918- - 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:
- William M. Branch is walking around the back of the car. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the main speaker at the gathering. A small group of people stands beside other parked cars. This image was probably taken for (but not used in) the article "Dr. King Sweeps Through the Black Belt, " which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for December 11-12, 1965. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol1_No22_1965_12_11.pdf
- Local Identifier:
- Q16510
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/7130
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:7130/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:
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