Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd outside the United Nations. Flags from Dag Hammerskjold Plaza fly in the rear. Here he made his speech declaring the war in Vietnam a racist war before an est.500,000 people

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd outside the United Nations. Flags from Dag Hammerskjold Plaza fly in the rear. Here he made his speech declaring the war in Vietnam a racist war before an est.500,000 people

Photograph

Benedict J. Fernandez

Maker
American, 1936–2021

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd outside the United Nations. Flags from Dag Hammerskjold Plaza fly in the rear. Here he made his speech declaring the war in Vietnam a racist war before an est.500,000 people

April 15, 1967
Gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1989
31.3 x 20.9 cm.
Gift of the photographer
1991.3005.0004
Inscriptions recto-(in ink, below image) "6/50"
(signed) "Benedict J. Fernandez"

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