Barbara Howard Flowers, staff member at the Southern Courier, speaking with Stokely Carmichael while standing in the yard in front of the Autauga County Improvement Association office in Prattville, Alabama.
The building was also the office for the Autauga County Voters Association and the Autauga Chapter of the NAACP. The day this photograph was taken, Carmichael addressed a meeting of the Improvement Association at the First Missionary Baptist Church; he was arrested after shouting "Black Power!&...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Summary: | The building was also the office for the Autauga County Voters Association and the Autauga Chapter of the NAACP. The day this photograph was taken, Carmichael addressed a meeting of the Improvement Association at the First Missionary Baptist Church; 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.pdf |
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