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Ralph Abernathy speaking to an audience during a meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Peppler, Jim

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The meeting was held after Abernathy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Wyatt Tee Walker, and A. D. King were released from a prison sentence that had been ordered during civil rights demonstrations in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they had to serve their time in jail.) The prison sentence was discussed in The Southern Courier for November 4-5, 1967 ("King in B'ham Jail: 'Small Price to Pay'"), and the subsequent mass meeting was covered in the issue for November 11-12, 1967 ("It's Like Old Times in B'ham"). Both issues are available online (not on the ADAH website: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No45_1967_11_04.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No46_1967_11_11.pdf
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4000 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1967 November
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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 Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130