Michael Lottman and Sarah Heggie, staff members for the Southern Courier, standing outside before a mass meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
The meeting was held after King, Ralph Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and A. D. King were released from a prison sentence that had been ordered during civil rights demonstrations in 1963. (In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that they had to serve their time in jail.) The prison sentence was discusse...
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/4768 |