Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for loitering outside a courtroom where his friend and associate Ralph Abernathy is appearing for a trial, Montgomery, Alabama, Charles Moore

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1931–2010
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for loitering outside a courtroom where his friend and associate Ralph Abernathy is appearing for a trial, Montgomery, Alabama, 1958
Where object was made: Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 23.5 x 34.2 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 9 1/4 x 13 7/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 27.7 x 35.4 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund
Accession number: 2008.0326
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Brosseau Center for Learning: In Conversation with the 2016 KU Common Book

“Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Is that what we wish civilization to be? And all the time the Dreamers are pillaging Ferguson for municipal governance. And they are bombing wedding parties (by accident!), and the Dreamers are quoting Martin Luther King and exalting nonviolence for the weak and the biggest guns for the strong. Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible.” ("Between the World and Me," p. 131)

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