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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy on One of the First Desegregated Buses, Montgomery, Alabama
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy on One of the First Desegregated Buses, Montgomery, Alabama
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy on One of the First Desegregated Buses, Montgomery, Alabama
© Withers Family Trust

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy on One of the First Desegregated Buses, Montgomery, Alabama

Artist (American, 1922 - 2007)
DateDecember 21, 1956
MediumGelatin silver print, printed from original negative in 1999
DimensionsComposition: 14 3/4 x 17 7/8 in. (37.5 x 45.4 cm)
Sheet: 16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.6 x 50.5 cm)
Mat: 24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineMemphis Brooks Museum of Art purchase with funds provided by Ernest and Dorothy Withers, Panopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, MA, Landon and Carol Butler, The Deupree Family Foundation, and The Turley Foundation
Object number2005.3.24
ProvenancePanopticon Gallery, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, 2005
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