- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Dorothy P. Williams giving a folding cot to a man in Resurrection City, an encampment of tents and shacks constructed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Poor People's Campaign.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1968-05
- Subject:
- African Americans--Economic conditions
Civil rights demonstrations
Washington (D.C.) - People:
- Williams, Dorothy P.
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- She is wearing an armband that reads, "Marshal," and three pins that promote the campaign and the National Welfare Rights Organization; one of the pins (which a man behind her is also wearing) reads, "Welfare Rights Now!" Williams was an SCLC member and civil rights activist from Prichard, Alabama. This image was taken for (but not used in) the photo spread "Poverty Power in Washington," which appeared on page 3 of The Southern Courier for May 25-26, 1968. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No21_1968_05_25.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/233
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:233/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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