Crowd seated in front of the Confederate monument in Tuskegee, Alabama, during a student demonstration to protest the murder of Samuel L. Younge, a civil rights worker.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Peppler, Jim
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The photograph was taken at night. The murder and demonstrations were discussed in several issues of The Southern Courier, which are available online: 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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1966 January
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph CollectionRecord Contributed By
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130Keywords
- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Macon County (Ala.)
- Monuments & Memorials
- Tuskegee (Ala.)