Turner, Albert, 1936-2000

Authoritative Name:
Turner, Albert, 1936-2000
Biography:
The son of a Perry Country Alabama farmer who owned 111 acres near Marion (now the Emerson Turner Memorial Park), Al Turner was a bricklayer and graduate of Alabama A&M. On Selma's Bloody Sunday in 1965 he was one of the leaders of the Voting Rights March that was attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In honor of his courage and dedication to the Movement, he was chosen by SCLC to lead the mule train that carried Dr. King to his funeral, and for many years he was state director for SCLC in Alabama. From: http://www.crmvet.org/mem/alturner.htm
Associated Subjects:
Turner, Albert, 1936-2000
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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William Pollard, correspondence, 1985

Creator:
AFL-CIO. Civil Rights Department
Kehrer, E. T., 1921-1996
Donahue, Thomas R.
Pollard, William Edward, 1915-2013
Gilliam, Arleen
Horwitz, Charles
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Johnson, Jondelle
Bumpers, Terry G.
Love, Albert E.
Young, Kenneth
Womack, Richard G., 1939-
McCaughan, Cynthia
Date of Original:
1985
Collection:
AFL-CIO Southeast Division Civil Rights Department Records
Contributing Institution:
Georgia State University. Special Collections

Alabama state troopers confronting civil rights marchers who have crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.

Creator:
Lankford, Tom
Date of Original:
1965-03-07
Collection:
Alabama Media Group Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Albert Turner speaking from the steps of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, during the 20th anniversary commemoration of the Selma to Montgomery March.

Creator:
Jones, Ed
Date of Original:
1985-03-03
Collection:
Alabama Media Group Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Civil rights demonstrators who had just participated in an SCLC march to the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama.

Creator:
Falletta, Anthony
Date of Original:
1965-08-10
Collection:
Alabama Media Group Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Civil rights demonstrators who had just participated in an SCLC march to the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama.

Creator:
Falletta, Anthony
Date of Original:
1965-08-10
Collection:
Alabama Media Group Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Civil rights demonstrators who had just participated in an SCLC march to the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama.

Creator:
Falletta, Anthony
Date of Original:
1965-08-10
Collection:
Alabama Media Group Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Hosea Williams and John Lewis leading marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Bloody Sunday.

Creator:
Lankford, Tom
Date of Original:
1965-03-07
Collection:
Alabama Media Group Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History
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Albert Turner and other men standing on a platform during a rally at Kelly Ingram Park in in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1967-10/1967-11
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Albert Turner and others, seated in the audience at St. Paul's CME Church in Selma, Alabama, during a meeting sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1966-03
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Albert Turner speaking to Ralph Abernathy at a large gathering, probably at 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

Albert Turner speaking to Ralph Abernathy at a large gathering, probably at 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

Albert Turner speaking to Ralph Abernathy at a large gathering, probably at 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

Albert Turner speaking to Richard Boone during a meeting at Maggie Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

Creator:
Peppler, Jim
Date of Original:
1968-02
Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History
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WSFA audiovisual item A068.0011

Date of Original:
1983-01-25/1983-01-27
Collection:
WSFA Collection
Contributing Institution:
Alabama. Department of Archives and History