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Crowd watching from the street at 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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Several women are seated in lawn chairs. One of the women is sharing her seat with a little girl, who is asleep. 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. Children
  4. Death & Burial
  5. Funeral Rites & Ceremonies
  6. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968

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