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Martin Luther King 1929-1968
Martin Luther King's funeral April 9, 1968
The funeral procession for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta on April 9, 1968.
He was assassinated at a Memphis hotel five days earlier.
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles The New York Times
Don Hogan Charles, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 79 NYT DEC. 25, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s wooden casket passing by during his funeral procession in Atlanta in April 1968.
Phottograph: Doris Derby
Doris Derby, Civil Rights Era Photographer, Dies at 82 She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos. NYT Published April 6, 2022 Updated April 7, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/
Mourners at the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta in 1968.
Photograph: John Shearer
John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72 Mr. Shearer joined the staff of Look magazine at the age of 20, becoming one of the few black photographers at a major national publication. NYT June 27, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
From left, at the 1968 funeral for Dr. King: his father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.; his mother, Alberta Williams King; his wife, Coretta Scott King; his brother, the Rev. A.D. King; and the singer Harry Belafonte.
Photograph: Don Hogan Charles/The New York Times
Don Hogan Charles, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 79 NYT DEC. 25, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/
The body of Martin Luther King lying in state in Memphis, Tennessee. Pictured nearest the coffin are (left to right) Revd Ralph Abernathy, Bernard Lee, Andrew Young
Photograph: Keystone/Hulton
06.04.1968 Martin Luther King is killed; Harlem reacts WJ Weatherby, the Guardian The Guardian G2 pp. 16-17 3.4.2006 > Full text
Harlem — the accepted capital of Negro America — had lost its King today. Adam Clayton Powell carries on like its king and Stokely Carmichael sometimes speaks with a regal “we”, but their following is small compared with that of “Martin”, as everyone called him.
Harlem has seen the big men come and go; only Martin seemed to have the trick of survival.
He was never treated here with quite the awe Negro Alabama or Negro Mississippi showed him.
They rarely touched the hem of his garment as he walked by, as some did in the deep south.
That’s not the hip Harlem way.
But even those who were not impressed by his religion or his politics were impressed by his staying power in the white strongholds.
Today it is as though a rock of ages has crumbled away: the world of Harlem seems even more insecure now that it knows not even Martin could survive any longer.
Seventh Avenue, the main boulevard, looks like a street in mourning on this grey day, and for a white man it is about as safe as a street in Vietnam.
Mayor John Lindsay, usually among the more acceptable of white people, found it too dangerous to show himself and finally drove around in a car.
White cab drivers wouldn’t take you up there this morningafter the bars closed. It simply wasn’t safe unless you had a Negro passport.
Not even if you were big and well dressed and therefore could be mistaken for a cop
This is a day when even one’s Harlem friends look the other way or act as though their grief is private; they have lost someone related to them but not to you.
It is pointless to recall the days of seeing Martin on so many marches since the 50s; all occasions he survived.
Memories of shared moments now do not speak as loudly as your white face.
You pass the corner of Seventh Avenue and 125th Street, where Malcolm X used to preach.
Malcolm, dead Malcolm, is the only one they speak of now with the same respect they always accorded the live Martin.
Malcolm, Martin — twin martyrs now, and our dream must be of what might have happened.
With both gone, no alliance seems possible in the movement, and Harlem, as usual, seems to be grieving for what might have been.
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