Historic Martin Luther King, Jr. photos
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ATLANTA, UNITED STATES: Two mules pull a cart carrying the coffin of the US clergyman, leader of the Movement against Racial Segregation and Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King during his funeral 09 April 1968 in Atlanta. Martin Luther King was assassinated on 04 April 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray confessed to shooting King and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. King's killing sent shock waves through American society at the time, and is still regarded as a landmark event in recent US history. (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
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