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Dr. Martin Luther King Just Before He Speaks at Birmingham by Danny Lyon — VisualArtsDB

Dr. Martin Luther King Just Before He Speaks at Birmingham

Dr. Martin Luther King Just Before He Speaks at Birmingham

1963

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 32.8 × 21.6 cm (12 15/16 × 8 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 × 27.8 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Genre: photography
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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