People standing around a fire in the town square near the Confederate monument in Tuskegee, Alabama, during a student demonstration to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
The photograph was taken at night; Christmas decorations are still on display. The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No02_1966_01_08.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-re...
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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/3029 |