Honored at the Hollywood Palladium

@ Los Angeles Public Library

Dean, Gordon

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Photograph included in the exhibit: "From Hula Hoops to Hanoi: L.A. Concerns, 1954-1965."; Photograph included in the Exhibit: King, the Kennedys, & Los Angeles.Martin Luther King is honored by the City of Los Angeles and the World Affairs Council during a luncheon held at the Hollywood Palladium. Here he is pictured with (from left), Councilman (and later mayor) Tom Bradley, Supervisor Warren M. Dorn, King, Harold C. McClellan and Mayor Samuel W. Yorty. King arrived in Los Angeles under heavy guard following the assassination of Malcom X. An anonymous bomb threat was made during the luncheon. When addressing the group, King said, "Before the victory is won, some of us will have to get scarred up a little bit." Photograph caption dated February 26, 1965 reads, "City and county officials presented a proclamation to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in ceremonies preceeding [sic] a World Affairs Council luncheon yesterday at the Hollywood Palladium at which King, the Nobel Peace prize winner spoke."

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Photographic Prints

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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State LibrarianMade accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends

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