Camera crew set up at the base staircase leading to the stage of the Montgomery City Auditorium, possibly during a meeting to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Montgomery Improvement Association.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph Abernathy spoke at the gathering. The event was described in the article "Negroes Hear King--Then They Go Home" by Gail Falk, which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for December 18-19, 1965. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peppler, Jim
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/1038