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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Addressing a Rally, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

1963

1530 6th Ave N, Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white digital image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The portrait features King in the middle of a speech at the pulpit, with his mouth open and arm outstretched. King is wearing a dark suit and tie and has a white badge on his jacket. The organ pipes fill the background of the image.

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Catalog reference: 2015.129.34

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