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View of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (facing away from the camera) and Coretta Scott King, with the residents of the Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia who were protesting their living conditions.In January of 1966, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his wife Coretta Scott King, and the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy and his wife Juanita led a protest march in the Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia to call attention to substandard housing in that area.
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Atlanta History CenterRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American Civil Rights Workers
- African American Clergy
- African American Neighborhoods
- African American Women
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Demonstrations
- Civil Rights Movements
- Direct Action
- Discrimination
- Discrimination In Housing
- Georgia
- Picketing
- Slums
- Women
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