
ALABAMA COLLECTION: “Tom’s Place” (1966)
Man and woman dancing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery, Alabama. Photographer, Jim Peppler.
Man and woman dancing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery, Alabama. Photographer, Jim Peppler.
Little girl standing in a yard in Little Korea, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Young woman picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569 Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Mourners entering Ebenezer Baptist Church to view Martin Luther King, Jr.’s casket. April 9, 1968. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
People entering a wooden church building in rural Autauga County, Alabama, for a meeting. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Man and woman dancing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery, Alabama. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569 Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Teacher and students saying the Pledge of Allegiance in a classroom. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Elderly man wearing a hat. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Woman holding a baby and an American flag, standing with a group of people during the “March Against Fear” begun by James Meredith. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569 Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Fannie Lou Hamer singing to a group of people during the “March Against Fear” begun by James Meredith. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Man and woman seated at a table at Tom’s Place in Montgomery, Alabama. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Band performing at Tom’s Place in Montgomery, Alabama. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Young man leaning on a rail outside Booker T. Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama, probably before a football game. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Crowd of white observers in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi, during the “March Against Fear” begun by James Meredith. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Group of children standing around a washtub in the dirt yard in front of a house in Little Korea, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama. This image was used in the photo spread that appeared on page 3 of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, 1966. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569 Digital image order form: […]
A waiter is reaching in front of the couple to remove an empty glass. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Woman sitting in an audience at Maggie Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, probably listening to Martin Luther King, Jr., speak.
Boy picking cotton in the field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama. Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q18859Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Bag of cotton hanging on a scale. A woman beside the scale is making notes in a book. The photograph was taken from above. 1965-68 Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
Bag of cotton hanging on a scale. A woman beside the scale is making notes in a book. The scale is is attached to side of the trailer, where a man has just emptied a sack of cotton.1965-1968 Photographer: Jim Peppler File Name Q20569Digital image order form: http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf http://www.archives.alabama.gov
James H. “Jim” Peppler, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was a staff photographer of the weekly paper, The Southern Courier, from May 1965 to mid-1968. Founded by staff members of The Harvard Crimson, the Courier recruited a biracial staff of both students and professional journalists from many parts of the country, with the goal of […]