- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1950/1968
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
African American clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Baptists--Georgia--Atlanta
Baptists--Clergy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Tables--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He stands behind a table. His right hand is raised. King, a Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/martin-luther-king-jr-1929-1968/martin-luther-king-jr_002/
- Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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