- 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
Municipal officials and employees--Georgia--Atlanta
Doors and doorways--Georgia--Atlanta
Churches--Georgia--Atlanta
Hats
Eaves, Reginald
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) - 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 A. Reginald Eaves (center, plaid jacket), the Atlanta Commissioner of Public Safety, and other unidentified individuals waiting to enter Ebenezer Baptist Church for a service in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his 47th birthday, 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 101.472.047
ahc101472047.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/1779
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:1779/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:
-
