- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Willie Ricks standing on a car and addressing a crowd on the sidewalk in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama, during a student demonstration to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
- 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
Tuskegee (Ala.)
Macon County (Ala.) - People:
- Ricks, Willie, 1943-
Schutz, Simuel Brent, 1946- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- He is wearing a pin that reads, "We Shall Overcome." Simuel Schutz, Jr., is standing beside him. The image is dark. 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/3146
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:3146/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:
-
Willie Ricks standing on a car and addressing a crowd on the sidewalk in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama, during a student demonstration to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
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