The photo above is from the June 22, 1966 edition of The Delta Democrat-Times, featuring Fannie Lou Hamer and others marching from Sunflower toward Indianola, Hamer with a sign welcoming Dr. Martin Luther King to Sunflower County.
It all happened on a dirt pile, on a construction site.
That was not the typical pulpit for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but on June 21, 1966, on the grounds of the Sunflower County Courthouse, that would have to do.
