Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just before he spoke at the funeral of the four murdered girls
Artist
Danny Lyon
(American, b. 1942)
Artist/Vendor
Danny Lyon
(American, b. 1942)
CultureAmerican
Date1963
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
Overall, Image: 9 × 13 1/4 in. (22.9 × 33.7 cm)
InscribedDate, print number, and a credit to Chuck Kelton (who made the print) appears on the verso of the print.
Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank
Object number2000.14.16
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits in a church pew.ProvenanceThe artist; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, 2000. Published ReferencesDanny Lyon, _Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement: Lyndhurst Series on the South_ (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), 95.
Ernest C. Withers
Dr. Martin Luther King is Confronted by police at the funeral of Medgar Evers, Jackson, Mississippi.
June 1963
Benedict J. Fernandez
April 6, 1968
