Perry County native Albert Turner Sr. (1936-2000) was the field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and deeply involved in the voting rights efforts in Alabama throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Shown here sitting on the floor at center, he is speaking with other attendees at Tabernacle Church in Selma. Out of the frame of the photo, Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd in February 1968.
Albert Turner Sr.
Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Collection
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