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Vine City Civil Rights Demonstration

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@ Atlanta History Center

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View of a 14-year-old resident of the Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia protesting his living conditions.In January of 1966, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his wife Coretta Scott King, and the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Juanita led a protest march in the Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia to call attention to substandard housing in that area.

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Atlanta History Center

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Digital Library of Georgia