- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and others, participating in the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1966-06
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Photographers - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- King is looking to the side and raising his hand. A photographer is kneeling in front of the group. The march began on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, and ended on June 26 in Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out, and he was not able to rejoin the march until June 25. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/8803
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:8803/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 4 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Floyd McKissick, Stokely Carmichael and others, participating in the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi, begun by James Meredith.
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