Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Group of 9 press photos of Coretta Scott King and the King family. Wire photos, various sizes, about 9 x 8 inches; various markings and some clippings on verso, one cropped, one toned. Vp, 1968-74
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Coretta Scott King is shown speaking with Nelson Rockefeller in Atlanta, 24 May 1968; clasping hands and singing at a memorial event with Ralph Abernathy and others, 4 June 1968; in a posed office portrait, 16 June 1968; with two of her children at Kennedy Airport, 15 March 1969; with A. Philip Randolph and Nelson Rockefeller, 7 May 1969; leading strikers in prayer in Charleston, SC, 24 August 1969; with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 9 February 1970; and on the phone in front of a portrait of Dr. King, 16 December 1970. Also included is a shot of Martin Luther King Sr. with Dr. King's nephew Derek Barber King at Ebenezer Baptist Church, 7 July 1974. With--a pair of duplicate prints of mourners at Dr. King's funeral, 8 April 1968.