Martin Luther King, Jr., arriving at the airport in Birmingham, Alabama.
He is surrounded by a crowd, and several people are holding umbrellas. King, Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and A. D. King flew to Birmingham from Atlanta to serve a five-day prison sentence that had been ordered during civil rights protests in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that th...
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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/4503 |