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.

Record Contributed By

Atlanta History Center

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia