- Collection:
- WSFA Collection
- Title:
- WSFA audiovisual item D148.0006
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1964-03
1965-03 - Subject:
- Alabama State Capitol (Montgomery, Ala.)
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers
Police
Legislators--Alabama
Race relations--Alabama
Segregation--Alabama
Students
Voter registration
Voting
Montgomery (Ala.)
Montgomery County (Ala.) - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Anderson, Louis Lloyd
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Orange, James, 1942-2008
Seay, Solomon S., 1931-2015
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Young, Andrew, 1932- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- The following segments are included: 0:00:00: Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at a press conference on March 4, 1964, to announce that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) decision to launch a "massive assault on the system of segregation in Alabama" in 1964, with a particular focus on Montgomery. Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth are seated on either side of him. The footage then switches to a mass meeting attended by King, Abernathy, and others, possibly at the First CME Church in Montgomery. (The latter segment is silent.) 0:13:53: Civil rights marches and demonstrations in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, probably in March 1965 (before or after the Selma to Montgomery March). Included are shots of counter-protestors and observers (legislators and staff watching from inside the Capitol)
Martin Luther King Jr. with Andrew Young, L. L. Anderson, John Lewis, Solomon Seay, and others at the Federal Building and Morrison's Cafe on Lee Street
Alabama State College students marching to the Capitol (possibly on March 16)
King with marchers on Jackson Street (probably on March 17)
and demonstrators in front of the Capitol with caskets in a symbolic funeral procession for civil rights demonstrators who had been killed (March 31). All the footage is silent. - Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/wsfa/id/1
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
-
