Juanita Abernathy, Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., James Meredith, Stokely Carmichael, Floyd McKissick, and others, participating in the "March Against Fear" through Mississippi.
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Peppler, Jim
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James Meredith began the march on June 5 in Memphis, Tennessee, but was injured by gunshots shortly after setting out. He was not able to rejoin the march until June 25, the day before it ended in Jackson, Mississippi. The event was covered in the issues of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, June 18-19, June 25-26, and July 2-3, 1966, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No25_1966_06_18.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No26_1966_06_25.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No27_1966_07_02.pdf
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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130Keywords
- Abernathy, Juanita, 1929 2019
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926 1990
- African Americans
- Carmichael, Stokely
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Leaders
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927 2006
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
- Mc Kissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922 1991
- Meredith, James, 1933