Mahalia Jackson and others on Auburn Avenue, just west of Ebenezer Baptist Church on the day of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral.
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@ Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Peppler, Jim
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Jackson sang during the service. Wheat Street Baptist Church is in the background. 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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