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Lula Williams, an SCLC worker from Montgomery, leading a group of young men and women in singing before a meeting at a small rural church building in Greenville, Alabama.

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Peppler, Jim

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Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, and others spoke at the meeting. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article "Dr. King Sweeps Through the Black Belt," which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for December 11-12, 1965. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol1_No22_1965_12_11.pdf

Record Contributed By

Alabama. Department of Archives and History

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Churches
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African Americans
  4. Alabama
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Movements
  7. Greenville
  8. Mass Meetings
  9. Singing

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