Men seated and standing in front of a tree in the dirt yard of a house in Newtown, a neighborhood in Montgomery, Alabama.
"Bessie Bill" Williams is seated in the lawn chair; Theodore "Ditto" Minor is sitting on the arm of the chair, and James Carlton is crouched beside it. A child is climbing on the tree, and a Susie Scarver is holding a baby in the yard of her home next door. This image was taken f...
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| Summary: | "Bessie Bill" Williams is seated in the lawn chair; Theodore "Ditto" Minor is sitting on the arm of the chair, and James Carlton is crouched beside it. A child is climbing on the tree, and a Susie Scarver is holding a baby in the yard of her home next door. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article and photo spread "'Newtown'--A Community Apart," which appeared on pages 4 and 5 of The Southern Courier for August 26-27, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No35_1967_08_26.pdf |
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