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Associated Press Mrs. King Cries

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.039 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: 8 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 26 cm, Width: 20.5 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 8, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King crying at a half-way point of a tribute march in his honor in Memphis, Tennessee.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006

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