Hosea Williams speaking to demonstrators outside the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, during the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.

Fred Shuttlesworth is standing beside Williams. One person is holding a sign that reads, "These Are Our Heroes We Are 'Proud' of Them." On October 30, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and A. D. King flew to Birmingham from Atlanta to serve a five-d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peppler, Jim
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/4522