[Collection of press photographs related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 1968][Decimalized .01-.82]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09740 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1968 Pagination: 82 items Order a Copy
Collection of press photographs dated 1968. Images were printed by Associated Press and United Press International. Majority of images are related to riots that took place following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in April 1968. One image is dated February 1968 depicting a civil rights protest. Locations of the photographs are in Chicago, Richmond, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and others. Certain images in this collection contain graphic violence of police brutality against Black people.
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