- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Students at the base of the Confederate monument in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama, during a nighttime demonstration protesting the acquittal of Marvin Segrest for the murder of Samuel L. Younge.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1966-12
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Memorials
Tuskegee (Ala.)
Macon County (Ala.) - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The image is very dark and out of focus. Several people are painting the statue. After the demonstration, the base was covered with graffiti (including the phrase "Black Power"), the soldier's hands and face were black, and a yellow stripe was painted down his back. The trial and demonstration were discussed in a couple of issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No51_1966_12_17.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No52_1966_12_24.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/14080
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:14080/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 3 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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