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Mourners and flowers at MLK funeral

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Mourners gather around a display of memorial wreathes and flowers at the funeral of assassinated Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in Atlanta, Georgia, April 9, 1968.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Assassinations
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Funerals
  5. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  6. Mourners

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