Title

Ticket for funeral services for Martin Luther King, Jr. owned by Nina Simone, April 9, 1968. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

An admission ticket to satellite funeral services for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Morehouse College. The back is blank. The civil rights activist and preacher was fatally shot by James Earl Ray on 4 April 1968, as he stood on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A72_302

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51,9Mb (1,5Mb) / 21,9in x 9,2in / 6557 x 2768 (300dpi)

Keywords

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