- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Martin Luther King Center Press Conference
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1969/1989
- Subject:
- Race relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Nonviolence
Military officers--United States
Military personnel--United States
Military training--Georgia
Press conferences
Audiences--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1970-1980
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of unidentified United States Army race relations officers at a press conference held by civil rights activist Coretta Scott King (not pictured) to announce a grant given to the King Center by the United State Army to teach non-violence to the race relations officers, at the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
The King Center was established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King as a memorial to her husband Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. The mission of the King Center is to be "a living memorial and institutional guardian" to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.466.001
ahc101466001.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1676
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1676/manifest.json
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
