Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Rev. Dr. Joseph Echols Lowery, Congressman John Conyers, Rev. Dr. Ralph David Abernathy, Mrs. Rosa Parks and Mr. Robinson, chatting
January 15, 1969; printed 2011
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
This black and white photograph is from the 1969 birthday commemoration for Martin Luther King Jr. taken inside Ebenezer Baptist Church. From proper right, Joseph Echols Lowery, John Conyers, Ralph David Abernathy, Rosa Parks, and Cleveland Robinson are shown standing. Parks and Robinson are both wearing glasses. Lowery and Abernathy are turned toward one another. There is an unidenitified man mostly obscured standing behind Lowery. The back of the photograph has a manufacturer's mark, photographer's stamp and a handwritten inscription.
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Catalog reference: 2011.94.25
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