Albert Turner and other men standing on a platform during a rally at Kelly Ingram Park in in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting the incarceration of Martin Luther King, Jr., and several other civil rights leaders.
King and six other ministers had been sentenced to five days in prison during civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they had to serve their time in jail.) The prison sentence was discussed in The Southern Courier for November 4-5, 1967 ("K...
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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/4766 |