L. B. Sullivan, city commissioner of public safety, addressing a crowd during a civil rights demonstration in Montgomery, Alabama, probably ordering them to disperse.
He is reading a sheet of paper while speaking into a microphone attached to a bullhorn; a uniformed police officer is holding the speaker. Several marches and demonstrations took place in Montgomery in June 1967. They were discussed in an article ("Marches Held in Capital") on pages 1 and...
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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/1994 |
| Summary: | He is reading a sheet of paper while speaking into a microphone attached to a bullhorn; a uniformed police officer is holding the speaker. Several marches and demonstrations took place in Montgomery in June 1967. They were discussed in an article ("Marches Held in Capital") on pages 1 and 6 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967, and in an article ("Goals No Closer for Marchers in Capital") and a photo spread ("Montgomery Marches") on pages 1 and 3 of The Southern Courier for June 24-25, 1967. The issues are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No26_1967_06_24.pdf |
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