- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy getting off a plane at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1967-10-30
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Airplanes
Airports
Civil rights workers
Journalists
Transportation
Birmingham (Ala.)
Jefferson County (Ala.) - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- slides (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A crowd, including journalists, is waiting at the bottom of the stairs; several people are holding umbrellas. King, 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 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/4502
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:4502/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:
-
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy getting off a plane at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama.
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