Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Freedom Singing, SCLC Convention
1962
Birmingham, West Midlands County, Alabama, 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.
A black-and-white digital image of a group of three men, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and four women circled in front of a microphone singing. The group is standing in front of a stage with a podium labeled [L. R. Hall/ AUDITORIUM]. The woman on the left of the image is in profile to the viewer. She is wearing a jacket with a collar and a pin. She and the man next to her, are in front of a woman in the back, only her face and part of her arm are seen. The man is in profile facing right wearing a dark suit and tie. King stands next in a dark suit and patterned tie, with a badge on the left of his jacket lapel. King's right arm is raised. A woman stands next to King looking at him.
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Catalog reference: 2015.129.10
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