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Line of people holding hands across Auburn Avenue during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral procession.

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Peppler, Jim

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A young boy stands in front. Wheat Street Baptist Church and the sign for the J. H. Robinson Launderette are visible 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
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4000 Ppi Tiff
Created Date:
1968 April 9
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection

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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Atlanta (Ga.)
  3. Children
  4. Death & Burial
  5. Funeral Rites & Ceremonies
  6. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  7. Photographers

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