Harry Belafonte holds the door open for the King children before getting into his limosine

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This black and white photograph shows Harry Belafonte standing in a dark suit with one hand on an open car door. Belafonte is outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church after the first commemorative birthday event for Martin Luther King Jr. in 1969. The top of an unidentified individual's head can be seen at the bottom of the photograph. The back of the photograph has a manufacturer's mark, and handwritten and printer's inscriptions.

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