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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.071 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Atlanta, Georgia Type: Photograph Date: 9 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 17.7 cm, Width: 26 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 9, 1968. Depicts Coretta Scott King and her children Yolanda and Bernice sitting in front of Dr. King's casket at his funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Yolanda, 1955- 2007
King, Bernice, 1963-

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