King Family and Supporters at Silent March
Item
Title
King Family and Supporters at Silent March
Description
Labor and civil rights leaders march with the King family in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. a few days after his assassination while supporting striking sanitation workers of AFSCME Local 1733. First row from left: singer, actor, and civil rights leader Harry Belafonte; King's daughter Yolanda; King's sons, Martin III and Dexter; King's widow, Coretta Scott King; Reverend Ralph Abernathy; Reverend Andrew Young; and Rabbi Abraham Heschel. Second row, beginning right of Yolanda: Bishop B. Julian Smith of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church; AFSCME President Jerry Wurf; civil rights leader Bayard Rustin; May Reuther and her husband, UAW President Walter Reuther; and AFL-CIO Civil Rights Director Don Slaiman.
Date
1968-04-08
Coverage
1960-1969
Subject
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
AFSCME
Belafonte, Harry, 1927-
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 1907-1972
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
King, Dexter, 1961-
King, Martin Luther, III
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
King, Yolanda
Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
Slaiman, Donald, 1919-
Smith, B. Julian
Wurf, Jerry, 1919-
Young, Andrew, 1932-
Rights
United Press International
Is Part Of
AFSCME Communications Department Records
Creator
United Press International
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
8 x 10
Type
Still Image
Photographs
Identifier
24756
Spatial Coverage
Memphis, TN