An invited speaker addresses the audience inside Ebenezer Baptist Church at the first birthday celebration of Dr. King in 1969

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This black and white photograph shows an unidentified woman in the center of the photograph standing at a lectern. The woman is speaking at Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration in 1969 inside of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Flowers are visible around the lectern and on the proper right of the photograph. There are three figures in front of the camera facing the speaker. Stained glass windows and other attendees can be seen in the background. The back of the photograph has a manufacturer's mark, and handwritten and printer's inscriptions.

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