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Digital print of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Raby, and Ralph Abernathy

July 24, 1965; printed 2012

City Hall, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America

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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.

A color photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Raby, and Ralph Abernathy. Dressed in black suits and white shirts the three men are standing in front of a microphone. Dr. King is facing the viewer and looking to the viewer's right. Beside him is Albert Raby, with a flower on his lapel, looking away from the viewer to the left. Behind both of them is Ralph Abernathy. He is gazing at the viewer over Dr. King's left shoulder.

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Catalog reference: 2013.140.12

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