Deliveryman carrying cross-shaped floral arrangement to down Auburn Avenue to Ebenezer Baptist Church for 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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The J. H. Robinson Launderette is on the left, and 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
Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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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