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Clear All Subject African American civil rights workers--Alabama State Alabama

Description:: Free, online reference resource on Alabama's history, culture, geography, and natural environment.
Date of Original:: 2018
Contributing Institution:: Encyclopedia of Alabama (Project)

Description:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College Collections Online features online descriptions to key collections belonging to Trenholm State's Division of Institutional Archives and Special Collections of Montgomery's Pioneer Voting Rights Activists; selected collections described at this site cover significant events in Alabama's voting rights movement, as well as materials about prominent Montgomery, Alabama-area African American civil rights workers, elected officials, and educators.
Date of Original:: 2000
Contributing Institution:: H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College

Description:: James H. "Jim" Peppler, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a staff photographer of the weekly paper, The Southern Courier, from May 1965 to mid-1968. During his three years working for the Southern Courier, Mr. Peppler took over 11,000 photographs documenting the civil rights movement, social conditions in central Alabama, the nightclub Laicos in Montgomery, and the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Date of Original:: 1965/1968
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Description:: Documents, sound recordings, and visual images covering the Civil Rights movement in Alabama and the work of Southern activists.
Date of Original:: 1956/1974
Contributing Institution:: Pennsylvania State University. Special Collections Library

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