Branch, William McKinley, 1918-

Authoritative Name:
Branch, William McKinley, 1918-
Biography:
African American clergyman, civil rights worker, and the first African American probate judge in the U.S. Branch organized the Greene County, Alabama NAACP in the early 1950s and was an early organizer of the National Democratic Party of Alabama. In 1970 he was elected to the county commission and as a probate judge in Greene County. Branch 1918-
Associated Subjects:
Branch, William McKinley, 1918-
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Cameramen in the back of a truck, filming the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1966-06
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Hosea Williams leading a group of marchers from the First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama, to the Green County courthouse.

Date of Original:
1965-11-10
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Hosea Williams leading a group of marchers from the First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama, to the Green County courthouse.

Date of Original:
1965-11-10
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy and others, greeting people after getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1965-12
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy and others, greeting people after getting out of a car, probably outside First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1965-12
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Martin Luther King, Jr., William M. Branch, Ralph Abernathy, Ben "Sunshine" Owens, and others, greeting a small crowd of people while walking toward a building, probably First Baptist Church in Eutaw, Alabama.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1965-12
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History
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