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Image Not Available for The Body of Martin Luther King, in the Funeral Home in Memphis
The Body of Martin Luther King, in the Funeral Home in Memphis
Image Not Available for The Body of Martin Luther King, in the Funeral Home in Memphis

The Body of Martin Luther King, in the Funeral Home in Memphis

Artist (American, born 1938)
CultureAmerican
Date1968
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 7 13/16 × 11 15/16 in. (19.9 × 30.3 cm)
sheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.5 cm)
Classificationsphotographs
Credit LineGift of Burk Uzzle
Object number2007.12.1
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1968
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Image Not Available for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. resting in the Lorraine Motel following the March Against Fear, Memphis, Tennessee, 1966. Less than two years after this photo was taken, Dr. King was assassinated outside.
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1966, printed between 1990 and 2000
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1968, printed between 1990 and 2000
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1968, printed between 1990 and 2000
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stops for lunch on the way to a strategy session for March Against Fear, Memphis, Tennessee
Ernest C. Withers
1966, printed between 1990 and 2000
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Ernest C. Withers
1968, printed between 1990 and 2000
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Robert Kennedy at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, April 9, 1968
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1968, printed 2008
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Untitled (Coretta Scott King and children, Jesse Jackson, Harry Belafonte in crowd)
Burk Uzzle
1968
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1989
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Burk Uzzle
1969