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Associated Press Getting Ready for March

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.053 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Photograph Date: 8 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 21 cm, Width: 26.4 cm Order a Copy

One wirephoto published by Associated Press dated April 8, 1968. Depicts people milling about outside of the Clayborn Temple in Memphis, Tennessee before the beginning of the march in honor of Dr. King.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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