- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Group of white people sitting or leaning on the hood of a truck, observing the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1966-06
- Subject:
- Children
Civil rights demonstrations - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The truck is a AAA Emergency Service tow truck. The vanity plate on the front reads, "MISSISSIPPI on the GO!" 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
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/12138
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:12138/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:
-
Group of white people sitting or leaning on the hood of a truck, observing the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
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