Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio in Montgomery, talking to another young man while standing in the yard in front of the Autauga County Improvement Association office in Prattville, Alabama.

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Collection:: Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Title:: Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio in Montgomery, talking to another young man 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
Prattville (Ala.)
Autauga County (Ala.)
People:: Lumpkin, Norman, -2014
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, Stokely 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/2362
IIIF manifest:: http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:2362/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
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