- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Floyd McKissick, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and others, standing in front of the Neshoba County Library in Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" 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
Police
Philadelphia (Miss.) - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991
Young, Andrew, 1932- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Young is holding a bullhorn. 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/9656
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:9656/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:
-
Floyd McKissick, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and others, standing in front of the Neshoba County Library in Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.
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