Ben "Sunshine" Owens and other demonstrators at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting the incarceration of Fred Shuttlesworth and several other civil rights leaders.
He is carrying a sign that reads, "How Great It Is Knowing We Will Be Free Some Day." In October 1967, Fred Shuttlesworth, J. W. Hayes, and T. L. Fisher flew to Birmingham to serve a five-day prison sentence that had been ordered during civil rights protests in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supr...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/103735 |