Friday, May 1, 2015

Jim Curtis Photograph Collection on Civil Rights in Kentucky now online

The Special Collections Research Center recently digitized the Jim Curtis Photograph Collection on Civil Rights in Kentucky, which is now available on ExploreUK. The collection comprises 13 photographs documenting the March on Frankfort, Kentucky, held on March 5, 1964, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jackie Robinson. Other figures depicted in the photographs include Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, Frank Stanley, Jr., and Kentucky Governor Edward T. Breathitt. For more information about the collection and to view the photographs, visit http://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt7gqn5z7t3j_1_1/guide.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (right) and Jackie Robinson (left) taking notes during march, Georgia Davis Powers on extreme right over King's shoulder, 1964

Group of people staging a hunger strike with signs reading Give me freedom or death! around their necks listening to a radio, 1964

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