Crowd singing We Shall Overcome inside Ebenezer Baptist Church during first birthday celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Museum Object and Cultural History
Crowd singing We Shall Overcome inside Ebenezer Baptist Church during first birthday celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Date: January 15, 1969; printed 2011. Photograph by: Horace C. Henry, American, born 1948. Subject of: Coretta Scot
The object in the museum catalogue
This black and white photograph shows members of the King family inside Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration in 1969. Coretta Scott King is standing in the center of the photograph with Bernice and Alberta King standing to her right. Harry Belafonte is looking at the camera and standing with his arms crossed at proper left. There are unidentified attendees standing around the family. The background of the church is dark in the image and a light from press equipment is illuminated above Coretta Scott King. The back of the photograph has a manufacturer's mark, and handwritten and printer's inscriptions.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: January 15, 1969; printed 2011
- Photograph by: Horace C. Henry, American, born 1948
- Subject of: Coretta Scott King, American, 1927 - 2006
- Subject of: Harry Belafonte Jr., American, 1927 - 2023
- Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
- Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
- Subject of: Unidentified Child or Children
- Subject of: Alberta King, American, 1904 - 1974
- Subject of: Bernice Albertine King, American, born 1963
- Type: inkjet prints
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
- Place captured: Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Baptist
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Religion
- Topic: Religious rituals and ceremonies
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2011.94.30
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Horace C. Henry
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Horace Henry Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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