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Martin Luther King, Jr., seated during a meeting at Maggie Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

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Peppler, Jim

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He is holding up is arm, so his entire face is not visible. This image was taken for (but not used in) an article ("'Things Are Not Right in This Country'--King" by V. English, B. Wilcox and B. Labaree) and photo spread ("Rallying Support for Poor People's Stay in Washington") that appeared on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for February 24-25, 1968. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No08_1968_02_24.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 American Clergy
  4. African Americans
  5. Alabama
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Civil Rights Movements
  8. Maggie Street Missionary Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.)
  9. Mass Meetings
  10. Montgomery
  11. Poor People's Campaign
  12. Social Conditions
  13. United States

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