Crowd at Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral procession on Auburn Avenue.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Peppler, Jim
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Holland's Cleaners and Wheat Street Baptist Church are in the background. People are watching the scene from the roof of the first building. The funeral was covered in the issue of The Southern Courier for April 13-14, 1968, which is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No15_1968_04_13.pdf
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1968 April 9
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph CollectionRecord Contributed By
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130Keywords
- African Americans
- Atlanta (Ga.)
- Death & Burial
- Funeral Rites & Ceremonies
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929 1968