- 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:
- 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/14131
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:14131/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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