Fred Shuttlesworth speaking to demonstrators outside the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.
One person is holding a sign that reads, "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...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/14057 |