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Mahalia Jackson and others outside Ebenezer Baptist Church, probably about to enter the building for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral service.

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

Peppler, Jim

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Jackson sang during the service. The J. H. Robinson Launderette 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. Death & Burial
  4. Funeral Rites & Ceremonies
  5. Jackson, Mahalia, 1911 1972
  6. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968

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