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Floyd McKissick walking down Auburn Avenue toward Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral.

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

Peppler, Jim

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McKissick is reaching to someone in the crowd on the side of the street; it appears that he is being escorted by the men on either side of him. Holland's Cleaners and Wheat Street Baptist Church are 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. Civil Rights
  4. Civil Rights Leaders
  5. Death & Burial
  6. Funeral Rites & Ceremonies
  7. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  8. Mc Kissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922 1991

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