- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Participants in the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith, gathered outside a large building in Batesville, Mississippi.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1966-06
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Batesville (Miss.) - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- They are listening to a man speak from the middle of the crowd; he is wearing a hat. Inside the building, most likely the courthouse, federal voting inspectors were registering people to vote. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the march until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf
- Local Identifier:
- Q16524
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/9105
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:9105/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James
Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection
LPP106, Box 2, Binder 4 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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