- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Barbara Howard Flowers, staff member at the Southern Courier, speaking with Stokely Carmichael while standing in the yard in front of the Autauga County Improvement Association office in Prattville, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-06-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights workers
Prattville (Ala.)
Autauga County (Ala.) - People:
- Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
Howard, Barbara - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The building was also the office for the Autauga County Voters Association and the Autauga Chapter of the NAACP. The day this photograph was taken, Carmichael addressed a meeting of the Improvement Association at the First Missionary Baptist Church; 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.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/2312
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:2312/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:
-
Barbara Howard Flowers, staff member at the Southern Courier, speaking with Stokely Carmichael while standing in the yard in front of the Autauga County Improvement Association office in Prattville, Alabama.
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