“In the heat of Atlanta’s April, a Baptist preacher was honored and buried…in irony and agony consistent with his life and death,” begins WWD’s coverage of the April 1968 funeral of the Rev. Dr.

Any number of historic moments in the civil-rights struggle have been used to identify Martin Luther King, Jr. — prime mover of the Montgomery bus boycott, keynote speaker at the March on Washington, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This gelatin silver print depicts a ...