- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Benefit Concert
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-01-15
- Subject:
- Politicians--Georgia
Politics and government--Georgia
Activists--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1970-1980
African Americans--1970-1980
Civil rights leaders--Georgia
Microphone
Concerts--Georgia--Atlanta
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Massell, Sam, 1927-
Omni Coliseum (Atlanta, Ga.)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - People:
- Young, Andrew, 1932-
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of (left to right) Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell; Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; an unidentified individual; and Congressman Andrew Young at a concert benefiting the King Center on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 101.469.029
ahc101469029.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1718
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1718/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:
-
