- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Audience seated in chairs outside the First Missionary Baptist Church in Prattville, Alabama, during a meeting of the Autauga County Improvement Association.
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-06-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Journalists
Photographers
Prattville (Ala.)
Autauga County (Ala.) - People:
- Colvin, Sandra
Peppler, James H., 1941- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Southern Courier photographer Jim Peppler is standing on the right, and Courier journalist Sandra Colvin is seated in the audience on the front row. Stokely Carmichael addressed the audience during the meeting; he was arrested after shouting "Black Power!" at a passing police car. The incident was discussed in the article "For the People of Prattville" by Sandra Colvin and Franklin Howard, which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pd
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/14331
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:14331/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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