Fred Shuttlesworth speaking to demonstrators outside the Jefferson County courthouse in Bessemer, Alabama, protesting the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.
Hosea Williams is standing beside Shuttlesworth with his arms folded. 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 196...
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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/14089 |