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Gwen Patton and other students from Tuskegee Institute marching down a sidewalk during a demonstration to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.

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Peppler, Jim

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Patton's back is to the camera. A young woman in the crowd is wearing a shirt that reads, "T.I.A.L. Freedom Now." Younge had been a leader of the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League (TIAL). The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No02_1966_01_08.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No03_1966_01_15.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No04_1966_01_22.pdf
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Created Date:
1966 January
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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. Macon County (Ala.)
  5. Patton, Gwendolyn Marie
  6. Tuskegee (Ala.)

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