- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Dr. Burcham Phillips speaking during a meeting in the Tuskegee Institute gymnasium, which was held to discuss student demonstrations protesting the murder of Samuel L. Younge.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1966-01
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Tuskegee (Ala.)
Macon County (Ala.) - People:
- Phillips, Burcham
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Dr. Phillips, dean of students at Tuskegee Institute, spoke to discourage students from participating in a march that was planned for the next day; the school administration had been warned that the Alabama Highway Patrol might respond to continued demonstrations with violence. The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No02_1966_01_08.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No03_1966_01_15.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No04_1966_01_22.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/3123
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:3123/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:
-
