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Photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Kelly Miller Smith, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1960 April 21

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A photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Kelly Miller Smith at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 21, 1960, preparing to speak to an audience of over 4000 following the bombing of the home of prominent civil rights attorney, Z. Alexander Looby. While urging the audience to continue with the sit-in demonstrations, Dr. King gave an interpretation of nonviolence by saying: "We will say, do what you will to us, but we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer." Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 3.25 x 4.25 in.
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Still Image Negatives Photographs
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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African Americans
  3. American
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Leaders
  6. Civil Rights Movements
  7. Colleges And Universities
  8. Education
  9. Fisk University
  10. History
  11. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  12. Looby, Z. Alexander (Zephaniah Alexander), 1899
  13. Manners & Customs
  14. Nashville
  15. Nashville (Tenn.)
  16. Nashville Christian Leadership Conference
  17. Nonviolence
  18. Race Relations
  19. Segregation
  20. Smith, Kelly Miller, 1920
  21. Social Conditions
  22. Sources
  23. Southern States
  24. Study And Teaching
  25. Tennessee
  26. United States
  27. Universities

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