- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1976-01-15
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Coats--1970-1980
Women--1970-1980
Hats--1970-1980
Prayer
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Martin Luther, 1899-1984
Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984
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 (foreground, left to right) the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.; an unidentified individual; Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Dr. Benjamin Mays, a civil rights leader and mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the tomb (not pictured) of Dr. King during the observance of the slain civil rights leader's 47th birthday, at the King Center on Auburn Avenue 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 101.472.040
ahc101472040.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1772
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1772/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:
-
