SCLC pallbearers stand over casket of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at Morehouse College on April 12, 1968, Atlanta, GA

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Object Details

Photograph by

Dr. Ernest C. Withers, American, 1922 - 2007

Subject of

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968

Description

In the foreground of this black-and-white photograph is Dr. King's coffin. Behind it stands a line of men holding hands.

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anthony Decaneas, Decaneas Archive, and Ernest C. Withers Trust

Date

April 12, 1968

Object number

2011.16.3

Restrictions & Rights

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Type

gelatin silver prints

Medium

silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper

Dimensions

H x W: 19 3/4 x 15 7/8 in. (50.2 x 40.3 cm)

Place depicted

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America

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National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection

Classification

Photographs and Still Images

Movement

Civil Rights Movement

Data Source

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic

African American

Civil Rights

Photography

U.S. History, 1961-1969

Violence

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd50e8320bb-a646-4d5b-9426-4ab83b6c812b

Record ID

nmaahc_2011.16.3