- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Emancipation Meeting Flyer
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1968
- Subject:
- African Americans--Suffrage
Suffrage--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights--United States
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Civil rights movements--United States
African Americans--Politics and government
Advertising fliers--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights workers--Southern States
African American civil rights workers--Southern States
Civil rights--Societies, etc. - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, 32.32597, -87.10648
United States, Alabama, Dallas County, Selma, 32.40736, -87.0211 - Medium:
- fliers (printed matter)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This flyer advertises an "emancipation meeting" cosponsored by the SCLC and featuring Martin Luther King Jr. as the speaker. The SCLC organized "right-to-vote" marches and registration drives in Georgia during the 1960s.
Image of a flyer advertising an "emancipation meeting" cosponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and featuring Martin Luther King Jr. as the speaker.
The text of the flyer reads as follows: "Come one! Come all! to an emancipation meeting! Held at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Saturday, January 2, 1965, at 4:00pm. Main speaker Dr. Martin Luther King. We need each other! The man who thinks he can got it alone is worse off than sheep without a shepherd. Together we can motivate why we choose to emancipate and liberate our people who are denied the right to vote. Dallas County Voters League, Affiliate, S.C.L.C."
The SCLC organized "right-to-vote" marches and registration drives in Georgia during the 1960s. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/southern-christian-leadership-conference-sclc/m-7591/
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/southern-christian-leadership-conference-sclc
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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