Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Abernathy at the funeral for the 16th Street Church bombing victims
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- Created Date
- 1963
- Description
Civil Rights leaders Fred Shuttlesworth (left), Martin Luther King Jr. (center), and Ralph Abernathy (right) attend a funeral for victims of the 16th Street Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963. The September 15, 1963 bombing killed four young African-American girls.
- Creator
Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
African American
Funerals
Civil rights
Racial discrimination - Location
- Birmingham (Ala.)
- Type
- image
- Format
- Black-and-white negatives
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2014, all rights reserved.
- Chicago citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer). Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Abernathy at the funeral for the 16th Street Church bombing victims. 1963. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1041. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer), (1963) Fred Shuttlesworth, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ralph Abernathy at the funeral for the 16th Street Church bombing victims. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1041
- MLA citation style
- Haun, Declan, 1937-1994 (photographer). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_pp/id/1041>.