Dr. Martin Luther King, center, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads a parade of Civil Rights marchers from a rally in a church to Lafayette Park, opposite the White House. Others are unidentified. The march capped two days of street corner rallies in Washington. Dr. King said that with the voting rights legislation being signed into law on August 6 by President Johnson, he hoped to register 900,000 blacks to vote in Southern states.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 until his assassination in 1968.

Associated Press ID #6508051163

On verso: manuscript title, manuscript date and date stamp.

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This object has the following keywords:

• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Lafayette Park
• Marches
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Racial Discrimination
• Rallies
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• Reverend Ralph Abernathy
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference
• Washington DC

• Image Dimensions: 2 3/8 x 4 3/16 in. (6.03 x 10.64 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin
• Sheet Dimensions: 2 13/16 x 4 7/16 in. (7.14 x 11.27 cm) Measured by Cornejo-Reynoso, Aitzin