- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Man speaking to an audience under a tent at a Sunday morning prayer session during the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi.
- 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 - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- James Meredith began the march on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, but was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out. He was not able to rejoin the march until June 25, the day before it ended in Jackson, Mississippi. 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/9726
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:9726/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:
-
Man speaking to an audience under a tent at a Sunday morning prayer session during the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi.
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