- Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Funeral
- Creator:
- Connell, Robert
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Kenan Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1968
- Subject:
- Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Flags--United States
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1960-1970
Clothing & dress--1960-1970
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
Southview Cemetery (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Martin Luther King Jr.'s casket and mourners at his public burial at Southview Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.
flowers; mourners; suits; gathering; cemetery; graveyard; event
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. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 170.3267.001
ahc1703267001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/athpc/id/1309
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 8 x 10 in.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta History Photograph Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
