Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral at the Ebenezer Baptist Church: Date: April 9, 1968. Created by: Unidentified. Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968.
The object in the museum catalogue
A program (2012.39a) and case (2012.39b) for the funeral services for Martin Luther King, Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church and Morehouse College on April 9, 1968. The program has sixteen pages. The cover features a half-tone portrait of King.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: April 9, 1968
- Created by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
- Subject of: Ebenezer Baptist Church, American, founded 1886
- Subject of: Morehouse College, American, founded 1867
- Type: programs
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 in. (21 x 13.7 cm)
- Place depicted: Atlanta, Georgia, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Baptist
- Topic: Civil Rights
- Topic: Funeral customs and rites
- Topic: HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Topic: U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Object number: 2012.39ab
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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