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Dorothy P. Williams giving a folding cot to a man in Resurrection City, an encampment of tents and shacks constructed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Poor People's Campaign.

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Peppler, Jim

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She is wearing an armband that reads, "Marshal," and three pins that promote the campaign and the National Welfare Rights Organization; one of the pins (which a man behind her is also wearing) reads, "Welfare Rights Now!" Williams was an SCLC member and civil rights activist from Prichard, Alabama. This image was taken for (but not used in) the photo spread "Poverty Power in Washington," which appeared on page 3 of The Southern Courier for May 25-26, 1968. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No21_1968_05_25.pdf
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1968 May
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection

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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Civil Rights Demonstrations
  4. Economic & Social Conditions
  5. Washington (D.C.)
  6. Williams, Dorothy P

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