Martin Luther King and Malcolm X (1964)

A black-and-white photograph of two Black men, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, looking at one another as other Black and White men look on. A White police officer in uniform stands to the left.

Source: Marion S. Trikosko’s photograph of the only time Martin Luther King and Malcolm X met, after King’s press conference at the US Capitol about the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Washington DC, March 26, 1964 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

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Marion Trikosko, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X’s Only Meeting (1964)

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