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Car parked in front of a brick church building in Prattville, Alabama, during a meeting of the Autauga County Improvement Association.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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Wendell Paris is standing on the left, and WRMA news director Norman Lumpkin is beside him (facing the building); Southern Courier photographer Jim Peppler is visible behind the car on the right. Stokely Carmichael addressed the audience during the meeting; he was arrested after shouting "Black Power!" at a passing police car. The incident was discussed in the article "For the People of Prattville" by Sandra Colvin and Franklin Howard, which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pd
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4000 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1967 June 11
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection

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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Autauga County (Ala.)
  3. Automobiles
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Lumpkin, Norman
  6. Paris, Wendell
  7. Peppler, James H., 1941
  8. Photographers
  9. Prattville (Ala.)

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