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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09739.087 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Atlanta, Georgia Type: Photograph Date: 9 April 1968 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 18 x 25.5 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto taken by Associated Press depicts the mule-drawn cassion of Dr. King surrounded by marchers as it processes toward Morehouse College.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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