Title: ["Don't work" sign promoting a holiday to honor the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., on a shop on H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]
Creator(s): Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. Date Created / Published: 1969 Apr. 3. Medium: 1 negative : film. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-03197 (digital file from original)
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Call Number: LC-U9- 20851-6A c-P&P. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 20851, frame 6A.
Subjects: King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968--Commemoration. African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Signs (Notices)--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970. Format: Film negatives--1960-1970.
Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand.
Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. On June 10, 1968, James Earl Ray, a fugitive from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was arrested in London at Heathrow Airport, extradited to the United States, and charged with the crime. On March 10, 1969, Ray entered a plea of guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in the Tennessee state penitentiary. He died in prison on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70.
TEXT RESOURCE: Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. From Wikipedia,
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