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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/
obituaries/don-hogan-charles-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
arts/doris-derby-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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/
obituaries/don-hogan-charles-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

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