Of Songs, Peace, and Struggle Series, Walking Montgomery in Observance of the 40th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Montgomery Improvement Association
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1996 January 13
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content: Box 24, Folder 18
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: In commemoration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., program held on Saturday, January 13, 1996, in the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. The program included a roundtable discussion, an audience discussion, a reunion concert, and a museum tour of exhibitions and other objects related to social change in America. The participants at the roundtable discussion were activists and organizers who participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott including Idessa Redding, Mary Frances Witt, Doris Dozier Crenshaw, Ann Pratt, Thelma Glass, Antoinette Carson Franklin, Minnie McCants, Bertha Howard, Gladys Carter Dawkins, and Jamilla (Mary Ethel Dozier) Jones. The reunion concert was a song workshop by the Montgomery Gospel Trio. Program number AC408.953.