- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Martin Luther King Jr. during Civil Rights Movement
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1968
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta
Men--Georgia--Atlanta
Streets--Georgia--Atlanta
Electric lines--Poles and towers - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- King's interest in nonviolence became a central tenet of his leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped lead a young generation of African Americans to promote desegregation through peaceful sit-ins.
Photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. walking down a street with two unidentified men. He wears a long dark coat and tie and looks left. King, a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/the-black-church-in-atlanta-politics/m-2272/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center Archives
Atlanta History Center - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-church-atlanta-politics
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/civil-rights-movement
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/martin-luther-king-jr-1929-1968
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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