Demonstrators at the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting the incarceration of Martin Luther King Jr. and several other civil rights leaders.
An African American police officer on a three-wheeled motorcycle is parked in front of the building. On October 30, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and A. D. King flew to Birmingham from Atlanta to serve a five-day prison sentence that had been ordered during civil r...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/103694 |