- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Roosevelt Barnett speaking to L. B. Sullivan, city commissioner of public safety, during a civil rights demonstration in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-06-12
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Police
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.) - People:
- Barnett, Roosevelt
Lottman, Michael S.
Sullivan, L. B. - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sullivan is probably halting the march that was supposed to take place. Michael S. Lottman, staff member for The Southern Courier, is standing in the foreground. Several marches and demonstrations took place in Montgomery in June 1967. They were discussed in an article ("Marches Held in Capital") on pages 1 and 6 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967, and in an article ("Goals No Closer for Marchers in Capital") and a photo spread ("Montgomery Marches") on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for June 24-25, 1967. The issues are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No26_1967_06_24.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/2008
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:2008/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 3 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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