Associated Press King Leads His Last March

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GLC#
GLC09739.083-View header record
Type
Images
Date
9 April 1968
Author/Creator
Associated Press
Title
King Leads His Last March
Place Written
Atlanta, Georgia
Pagination
1 photograph Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
1945 to the Present
Sub-Era
The Sixties

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press dated April 9, 1968. Depicts the mule-drawn casket of Dr. King at the head of a procession of thousands of marchers. The line of marchers extends to the horizon. In life King often led mass civil rights marches. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson is visible towards the back right of Dr. King's casket.

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