Willie Ricks standing on a car and addressing a crowd on the sidewalk in downtown Tuskegee, Alabama, during a student demonstration to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
He is wearing a pin that reads, "We Shall Overcome." Simuel Schutz, Jr., is standing beside him. The image is dark. 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_0...
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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/3146 |