Martin Luther King Jr. News Agency Photo 1963 KNEELING IN PRAYER / HERO / PEACE

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Excellent condition LARGE FORMAT Photographic Print from Personal Press Pool December 3rd, 1963. This photograph was used in the newspaper production process.KNEEL IN PRAYERFeb 3rd 1965 Dr. King instructs a peaceful group of Protesters in Prayer as they Attempt to Register to Vote26 x 18cmAMAZING MUSEUM PIECE OR ARCHIVAL COLLECTOR ORIGINAL.Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr.King in 1964 Born Michael King, Jr.January 15, 1929Atlanta , Georgia , U.S. Died April 4, 1968 (aged 39)Memphis , Tennessee , U.S. Monuments Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Alma mater Morehouse College ( B.A. )Crozer Theological Seminary ( B.D. )Boston University ( Ph.D. ) Occupation Clergyman, activist Organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Political movement African-American Civil Rights Movement , Peace movement Religion Baptist ( Progressive National Baptist Convention ) Spouse(s) Coretta Scott King (1953-1968) Children Yolanda Denise-King (1955-2007)Martin Luther King III (b. 1957)Dexter Scott King (b. 1961)Bernice Albertine King (b. 1963) Parents Martin Luther King, Sr.Alberta Williams King Awards Nobel Peace Prize (1964), Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977, posthumous), Congressional Gold Medal (2004, posthumous) SignatureMartin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement . He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience . King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism . [1]A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia , in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama , that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington , where he delivered his " I Have a Dream " speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He also established his reputation as a radical, and became an object of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 's COINTELPRO for the rest of his life. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter that he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence . In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago . In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War , alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled " Beyond Vietnam ". King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People's Campaign . King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee . His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities . Allegations that James Earl Ray , the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting, and the jury of a 1999 civil trial found Loyd Jowers to be complicit in a conspiracy against King.King was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor. A memorial statue on the National Mall was opened to the public in 2011.Kind thanks for your interest, and wishing you a prosperous, eventful day.-Inkw... read more

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