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Flip Schulke

(St. Paul, Minnesota, 1930 - 2008, West Palm Beach, Florida)

Coretta Scott King, Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968 (printed later)

Gelatin silver print

13 1/4 x 9 in. (33.8 x 22.9 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Museum Acquisition Fund

1997.35 f

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On April 4, 1968, the thirty-nine year old King was shot and killed by a sniper in Memphis. Images of his widow at the funeral probably evoked memories of photographs of a veiled Jacqueline Kennedy at the funeral of her assassinated husband.

Keywords
Female
Documentary
Civil Rights