Alabama Media Group collection
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This collection contains more than 3 million negatives taken by newspaper photographers working for the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and Mobile’s Press-Register between the 1920s and the early 2000s (mostly from the 1960s to the 1990s).
More About This Collection
Date of Original
1956/1991
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Dallas County (Ala.)
Birmingham (Ala.)
Jefferson County (Ala.)
Selma (Ala.)
Law enforcement officers
Civil rights leaders
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Race relations--Alabama
Flags--United States
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965--Commemorations
Children's Crusade, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Bridges
Voter registration
Journalists
African Americans--Political activity
Segregation--Alabama
Fire fighters
Lowndes County (Ala.)
Alabama River (Ala.)
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Mayors--Alabama
Alabama State Capitol (Montgomery, Ala.)
People
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Freedom Rides, 1961
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Williams, Hosea, 1926-2000
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Lowery, Joseph E.
Vivian, C. T.
Baker, Wilson
Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971
LeFlore, John L., 1903-1976
Young, Andrew, 1932-
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Peck, James, 1914-1993
Reese, F. D.
Location
United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Alabama, Madison County, Huntsville, 34.7304, -86.58594
United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
Type
StillImage
Description
In December 2016 Alabama Media Group (AMG) donated its collection of historical photographic negatives to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. This collection contains more than 3 million negatives taken by newspaper photographers working for the Birmingham News, the Huntsville Times, and Mobile’s Press-Register between the 1920s and the early 2000s (mostly from the 1960s to the 1990s). This digital collection includes both images from the AMG material and the film sleeves where the original negatives are stored.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Alabama. Department of Archives and History
Search Results
2. C. T. Vivian and another man talking to Wilson Baker at a police barricade on Sylvan Street in Selma, Alabama, during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations.
3. Wilson Baker and civil rights demonstrators at a wooden barricade on Sylvan Street in Selma, Alabama, during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations.
4. Wilson Baker and C. T. Vivian talking during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations in the George Washington Carver Homes neighborhood in Selma, Alabama.
5. Wilson Baker, a policeman, and a prisoner erecting a wooden barricade on Sylvan Street in Selma, Alabama, during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations.
6. Wilson Baker and C. T. Vivian during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations in the George Washington Carver Homes neighborhood in Selma, Alabama.
7. Wilson Baker and C. T. Vivian talking to reporters during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations in the George Washington Carver Homes neighborhood in Selma, Alabama.
8. Wilson Baker and police officers on Sylvan Street in the George Washington Carver Homes neighborhood during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, .
9. Policeman lighting a cigarette for Wilson Baker during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.
10. Wilson Baker and Mayor Joe Smitherman smoking cigarettes during the "Berlin Wall" demonstrations in Selma, Alabama.
11. Civil rights demonstrators kneeling in prayer on U.S. Highway 80 in Selma, Alabama, on Turnaround Tuesday.
12. Civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Turnaround Tuesday.
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