Description

View of (foreground, left to right) the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.; an unidentified individual; Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; an unidentified individual; and Dr. Benjamin Mays, a civil rights leader and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the tomb (not pictured) of Dr. King during the observance of the slain civil rights leader's 47th birthday, at the King Center on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader, and a Baptist minister. He received the Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to end racial discrimination by non violent means in 1964. King was assassinated in 1968 and is entombed at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Record Contributed By

Atlanta History Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia