Stokely Carmichael speaking to a group of people standing outside the First Missionary Baptist Church in Prattville, Alabama, during a meeting of the Autauga County Improvement Association.
Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio in Montgomery, is standing in the audience. Carmichael was arrested during the meeting, after shouting "Black Power!" at a passing police car. The incident was discussed in the article "For the People of Prattville" by Sandra Colvin an...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/2366 |
| Summary: | Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio in Montgomery, is standing in the audience. Carmichael was arrested during the meeting, after shouting "Black Power!" at a passing police car. The incident was discussed in the article "For the People of Prattville" by Sandra Colvin and Franklin Howard, which appeared on page 1 of The Southern Courier for June 17-18, 1967. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol3_No25_1967_06_17.pdf |
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