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Title: Martin Luther King at dedication of Connor/Johnson Mortuary
Contributor: Joseph, Andrée M
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960/1968
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
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USC Libraries Special Collections
Wright, Crispus A.
specol@usc.edu
Description: A group of thirteen African-American men including civil rights activist Martin Luther King (sitting far left) and Los Angeles attorney Crispus A. Wright (standing far right) at the dedication of the chapel of the Connor/Johnson Funeral Home, Los Angeles. All of the men are wearing suits and ties. Six are sitting. Seven are standing. Taken inside probably sometime in the 1960's.
Type: image
Format: photograph : b&w
20 x 25 cm.
photographs
Identifier: exbt-m9
exbt-BHE-009
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m9
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-BHE-009.jpg
Subject: African Americans
African Americans--History--1877-1964
African Americans--History--1964-
Sepulchral chapels
Funeral homes
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Wright, Crispus A
Connor/Johnson Mortuary
Cemeteries
Time Period: 1960/1968
Place: California
Los Angeles
USA
Source: BHE-009 [Call Number]
Relation: Black History Month Exhibit, Doheny Memorial Library, Spring 1999
Library Exhibits Collection
exbt-m30

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