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Alberta Williams King pressing a handkerchief to her face during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at South View Cemetery.

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

Peppler, Jim

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Martin Luther King, Sr., is seated beside her, with his back to the camera. He is speaking to Ralph Abernathy, whose face is not visible. 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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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. King, Alberta Christine Williams, 1904 1974
  6. King, Martin Luther, 1899 1984
  7. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968

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