Robert L. Green, education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, climbing on the back of a train during the "March Against Fear" begun by James Meredith.

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Collection:
Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
Title:
Robert L. Green, education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, climbing on the back of a train 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
Civil rights workers
Railroads
Transportation
People:
Green, Robert Lee
Location:
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
Medium:
negatives (photographs)
Type:
StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg
Description:
He is speaking to a white man who is standing on the train. The march began on June 5 in Memphis. 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/9667
IIIF manifest:
http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:9667/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:
In Copyright