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Source Collection
Memphis Press-Scimitar newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0475.0281a_03.005
Description
Before her husband's funeral in Atlanta, Coretta Scott King and her children returned to Memphis to lead a memorial march on April 8, 1968. To their left, in the photograph, stand entertainer Harry Belafonte and Rev. James Lawson, while Rev. Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young stand on the right.
Date Created
6-22-2021
Date
1968-04-08
Recommended Citation
"Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial march, Memphis, 1968" (2021). Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968. 5.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-mpressscimitar2/5
Keywords
Sanitation Workers Strike, 1968, Civil rights demonstrations -- Tennessee -- Memphis, King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990, Belafonte, Harry, 1927-, Lawson, James M., 1928-
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