- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- People Waiting To Attend Malcolm X's Funeral, February 24, 1965
- Date of Original:
- 1965-02-24
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
Funeral rites and ceremonies - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- A crowd of people are shown lined up outside of Unity Funeral Chapel waiting to attend Malcolm X's funeral in New York City. Written on verso: From New York. WAITING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS - Standees wait behind police barricades at 126th Street and Eighth Avenue in New York, Feb. 24, for entry to the Unity Funeral Chapel where slain Muslim Leader Malcolm X is laid out. As precautionary measure police searched all packages being carried by persons entering the chapel. Unity Funeral Home.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:03896
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu With the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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