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James Bevel on Auburn Avenue during the funeral procession for Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Peppler, Jim

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Ralph Featherstone, a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is standing on the left; James Forman, former executive secretary of SNCC is standing beside him, behind Bevel. Standing on the other side of Bevel is Bob Zellner, former SNCC field secretary. Ebenezer Baptist Church and the J. H. Robinson Launderette are visible in the background. The funeral was covered in the issue of The Southern Courier for April 13-14, 1968, which is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No15_1968_04_13.pdf
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Created Date:
1968 April 9
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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

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Atlanta (Ga.)
  3. Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936 2008
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Leaders
  6. Death & Burial
  7. Featherstone, Ralph, 1932 2003, 1939 1970
  8. Forman, James, 1928 2005
  9. Funeral Rites & Ceremonies
  10. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  11. Zellner, Bob

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