| Summary: | Edward Gardner and Ben "Sunshine" Owens are at the front of the group (Gardner is speaking into a bullhorn). People are carrying signs that read, "They Are Going to Jail for Our Freedom"; "They Are Going to 'Jail' to Make 'America' a Better Place"; "How Great It Is Knowing We Will Be Free Some Day"; "While You Sacrifice in Jail We Will Mourn"; and "These Are Our Heroes We Are Proud of Them." 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 rights protests in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that they had to serve their time in jail.)
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