Car parked in front of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Prattville, Alabama, during a meeting of the Autauga County Improvement Association.
Wendell Paris is standing on the left, and WRMA news director Norman Lumpkin is beside him (facing the building); Southern Courier photographer Jim Peppler is visible behind the car on the right. Stokely Carmichael addressed the audience during the meeting; he was arrested after shouting "Black...
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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/14289 |
| Summary: | Wendell Paris is standing on the left, and WRMA news director Norman Lumpkin is beside him (facing the building); Southern Courier photographer Jim Peppler is visible behind the car on the right. Stokely Carmichael addressed the audience during the meeting; he was arrested after shouting "Black Power!" at a passing police car. The incident was discussed in the article "For the People of Prattville" by Sandra Colvin and Franklin Howard, which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pd |
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