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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-01-15
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Children--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Prayer
Families--Georgia--Atlanta
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
King, Bernice A.
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Martin Luther, 1957-
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Auburn Avenue, 33.755509, -84.376596 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of (left to right) an unidentified individual (with sunglasses); Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Dr. Benjamin Mays, a civil rights leader and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Martin Luther King III, the son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the tomb of Dr. King (not pictured) at the King Center on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, during a commemorative celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday.
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 101.468.013
ahc101468013.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1695
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1695/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: