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Photograph of the crypt containing the body of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1970, during the dedication ceremony for the King Center complex in Atlanta, the remains of the civil rights leader were relocated to a crypt at the center. The reflecting pool surrounding the crypt was completed in 1977. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, was interred beside him in 2006.
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  1. African American Civil Rights Workers
  2. African American Women Civil Rights Workers
  3. African Americans
  4. Atlanta
  5. Civil Rights
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Crypts
  8. Georgia
  9. King, Coretta Scott, 1927 2006
  10. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968
  11. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change
  12. Memorials
  13. Tomb
  14. Water In Landscape Architecture
  15. Women
  16. Women Civil Rights Workers

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