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Allied Printing (fl. 1968) Honor King, End Racism

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06125 Author/Creator: Allied Printing (fl. 1968) Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Broadside Date: 8 April 1968 Pagination: 1 p. ; 54.5 x 35.2 cm. Order a Copy PDF Download(s):

Large black letters printed on white posterboard state "HONOR KING: END RACISM!" Contains strings intended to suspend the poster from a marcher's neck. Poster designed for a march on April 8, 1968, 4 days after Martin Luther King's Jr.'s assassination. Printed by Allied Printing. (See GLC09739.049 for image of marchers carrying this sign).

Mrs. King and three of her children led some 20,000 marchers through the streets of Memphis on April 8, holding signs that read, "Honor King: End Racism," "Union Justice Now," or, simply, "I Am A Man." National Guardsmen lined the streets, perched on M-48 tanks, bayonets mounted, as helicopters circled overhead. She led another 150,000 in a funeral procession through the streets of Atlanta the next day.

Allied Printing, fl. 1968
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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