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Thomas, Azim M. [Image of children holding "I am somebody" posters]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08359 Author/Creator: Thomas, Azim M. Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 4 April 1998 Pagination: 35cm wide Order a Copy

"I am somebody." Image from Martin Luther King Memorial March, April 4, 1998, showing children carrying placards paraphrasing those carried by Memphis Sanitation Workers on the day King was assassinated.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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