Jim Peppler

James H. Peppler is a former newspaper photographer for The Southern Courier during the Civil Rights Era and then Newsday in Long Island, New York. He captured images of the Civil Rights Era in central Alabama. He later worked in New York City and taught photojournalism.

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in South Philadelphia. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University.

After his time in Alabama, Peppler worked for Newsday in New York City for 38 years and taught photojournalism at Adelphi University and Stony Brook University. He left Alabama not long after King was assassinated.

Many of his photographs have been digitized by the Alabama Department of Archives and History and are available online.

In 2022 he was living in Saugerties, New York.