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Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute at Coliseum
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1968
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Behind two men, the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are flashed on the Coliseum electric board at a memorial service for him on April 7, 1968; the sentence reads, "I've been to the top of the mountain and I have seen the promised land of justice and freedom."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00032093
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3173.
CARL0000034202
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/10841
Subject: King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968--Death and burial
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Memorial rites and ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Arenas--California--Los Angeles
University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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