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.
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| 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 |
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| 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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