Ralph Abernathy leading the service for Martin Luther King, Jr. at South View Cemetery.

Ralph Abernathy leading the service for Martin Luther King, Jr. at South View Cemetery.

Benjamin Mays and Fred Shuttlesworth stand at the right. The funeral was covered in the issue of The Southern Courier for April 13-14, 1968, which is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol4_No15_1968_04_13.pdf

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peppler, Jim
Format:	Electronic
Published:	Alabama Department of Archives and History
Subjects:	Southern Courier photographs
Online Access:	http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/5097

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