- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Fred Shuttlesworth speaking to demonstrators outside the Jefferson County courthouse in Bessemer, Alabama, during the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-10/1967-11
- Subject:
- Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Bessemer (Ala.)
Jefferson County (Ala.) - People:
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- slides (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Hosea Williams is standing beside Shuttlesworth. One person is holding a sign that reads, "They Are Going to 'Jail' to Make America a Better Place to Stay." On October 30, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and A. D. King flew to Birmingham from Atlanta to serve a five-day prison sentence that had been ordered during civil rights protests in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that they had to serve their time in jail.) The prison sentence was discussed in The Southern Courier for November 4-5, 1967 ("King in B'ham Jail: 'Small Price to Pay'"), and the subsequent mass meeting was covered in the issue for November 11-12, 1967 ("It's Like Old Times in B'ham"). Both issues are available online (not on the ADAH website: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No45_1967_11_04.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No46_1967_11_11.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/4499
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:4499/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 1, Binder 1 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
