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- Collection:
- Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Floyd McKissick walking down Auburn Avenue toward Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral.
- Creator:
- Peppler, Jim
- Publisher:
- Montgomery, Ala. : Alabama Department of Archives and History
- Date of Original:
- 1968-04-09
- Subject:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Death and burial
African Americans
Civil rights workers
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Atlanta (Ga.) - People:
- McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
- Medium:
- negatives (photographs)
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- McKissick is waving to the crowd on the side of the street; it appears that he is being escorted by the men on either side of him. Holland's Cleaners, Wheat Street Baptist Church, and downtown Atlanta are in the background. The funeral was covered in the issue of The Southern Courier for April 13-14, 1968, which is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No15_1968_04_13.pdf
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5414
- IIIF manifest:
- http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/iiif/2/peppler:5414/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- Original Collection:
- Peppler, James
Jim Peppler Southern Courier photograph collection
LPP106, Box 1, Binder 1 - Contributing Institution:
- Alabama. Department of Archives and History
- Rights:
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