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Source Collection
Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0475.0279a_04.001
Description
Band leader Ben Branch, one of the last people to see Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. alive, talks with a policeman at the Lorraine Motel after King's murder, April 1968.
Date Created
6-22-2021
Date
1968-04
Recommended Citation
"Bandleader Ben Branch after Dr. King's assassination, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 28.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mpressscimitar2/28
Keywords
Sanitation Workers' Strike, 1968, Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis, Branch, Ben, King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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