- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Man standing in front of an audience outside the First Missionary Baptist Church in Prattville, Alabama, during a meeting of the Autauga County Improvement Association.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-06-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Journalists
Prattville (Ala.)
Autauga County (Ala.) - People:
- Colvin, Sandra
Howard, Barbara - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sandra Colvin and Barbara Howard Flowers, staff members at the Southern Courier, are seated on the front row, second and third from the right, respectively. 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.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/2443
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:2443/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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