- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Funeral, April 9, 1968
- Date of Original:
- 1968-04-09
- Subject:
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
African American men
African American civil rights workers - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Civil rights workers, including Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and James Orange, walk alongside the mule train containing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s body during his funeral procession in Atlanta, Georgia. Caption on photo reads: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., FUNERAL PROCESSION -- Memphis, April 3, 1968 -- One of the dramatic historic moments shown in "KING": A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis", the motion picture scheduled to be shown Tuesday evening, March 24th at 8:00 P.M. Dr. Ralph Abernathy, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference leads the mule train containing the body of Martin Luther King, Jr. Film covers the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for 13 years (1955-1968). Seats are $5 tax-deductible. The two-and-a-half-hour motion picture film will be presented on a one-time only simultaneous showing in more than one thousand theatres throughout the country.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:04722
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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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