Demonstrators marching to the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, to protest the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.

One woman is holding a sign that reads, "They Are Going to 'Jail' to Make America a Better Place to Stay." 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-day prison sentence that had b...

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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/4724

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