Police arrest Dr. King for loitering.
PP-22643 POLICE ARREST DR. KING FOR "LOITERING" MONTGOMERY, Ala.-- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is hustled off to jail by Montgomery police where he was detained for 15 minutes on a charge of loitering. Dr. King, leader of the Negro boycott against Jim Crow buses here in 1956, was arrested outside a City Hall courtroom where he had gone to attend a hearing for a Negro accused of attacking an integration leader. The 29-year-old pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist church here accused the police of beating and kicking him. He was released in $100 bond. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (WW-NY-9A-58-JS).
Wide World Photos, Inc. (photographer)
1958 September 4, 1958
still image
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acetate negative : black-and-white
Religious News Service--Archives. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery. Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery.
Alabama Montgomery. Montgomery (Ala.) North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Montgomery
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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.
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RNS RG 1, RT 1040, Image no. 22643; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
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