NOW March, 1968

Activist Jerry Pogue leads a march by the Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW) in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. NOW leaders were denied a permit by the city of Mobile for the march, but held it anyway on April 7, 1968.

A crowd marches on a neighborhood street, with the man in front holding an American flag.
Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
A crowd marches on a neighborhood street, with the man in front holding an American flag.