Press Coverage of First Birthday Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Museum Object and Cultural History
Press Coverage of 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 Scott King, American, 1927 - 2006.
The object in the museum catalogue
This black and white photograph shows the King family seated inside Ebenezer Baptist Church for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday commemoration in 1969. Coretta Scott King is seated in the center of the photograph. Harry Belafonte is seated to the proper left of King and there is an unidentified woman to the proper left of Belafonte. To the other side of Coretta Scott King, Alberta and Martin Luther King Sr. are seated. There are unidentified men behind the family along with press and their equipment. 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: Rev. Martin Luther King Sr, American, 1899 - 1984
- Subject of: Alberta King, American, 1904 - 1974
- Printed by: Unidentified
- 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: 2011.94.27
- 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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