- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Willie Ricks 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-
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- He is speaking into a microphone. 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/3168
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:3168/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:
-
