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Installation of Martin Luther King Jr. Mural inside Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

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Workers on a raised platform install the Martin Luther King Jr. Mural by artist Don Miller in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. The mural depicts various scenes from the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Other workers in the picture hold the mural up or observe the installation. In the foreground several computer monitors sit on rows of card catalogs.The mural was commissioned in November 1984 and unveiled to the public in the library's Great Hall on January 20, 1986Original version: photograph; DC Public Library, Special Collections, DC Public Library Archives - MLK Library construction, 1968-1972
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Miller, Don, 1923-1993
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Keywords

  1. Card Catalogs
  2. Chinatown, Washington, D.C
  3. Civil Rights
  4. District Of Columbia. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
  5. Libraries
  6. Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Civil Rights Movement
  7. Murals

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