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Emancipation meeting flyer

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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.
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  1. Advertising Fliers
  2. African American Civil Rights Workers
  3. African Americans
  4. Alabama
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Movements
  7. Civil Rights Workers
  8. Government
  9. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  10. Politics And Government
  11. Selma
  12. Societies, Etc
  13. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  14. Southern States
  15. Suffrage
  16. United States

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