- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1974-01-15
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Parades and processions--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights leaders
Politicians--Georgia--Atlanta
Politics and government--Georgia--Atlanta
Activists
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Office buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Facades--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984
Portman, Austin
Chavez, Cesar, 1927-1993 - People:
- Jackson, Maynard, 1938-2003
- 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 (right to left) Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson; Coretta Scott King, the widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; an unidentified woman; Cesar Chavez, a civil rights leader and labor activist; an unidentified man; the Reverend Austin Portman; and Dr. Benjamin Mays, an educator and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., marching passed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) offices on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia, on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 45th 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 101.470.002
ahc101470002.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1721
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1721/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:
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