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African American Civil Rights History Life Magazine on Martin Luther King Jr. and His Assassination 1968

1968rif. 113121968. Hunt George P. Life magazine issue concerning Martin Luther King Jr. April 1968 a contemporary illustrated publication documenting the death and public commemoration of the civil rights leader following his assassination in Memphis Tennessee on April 4. King's murder at the Lorraine Motel ended a career that had placed nonviolent direct action desegregation voting rights and economic justice at the center of the postwar Civil Rights Movement and the national illustrated press became an important medium through which Americans encountered both his death and his legacy. Life's April 12 1968 issue carried King on its cover and devoted a photographic feature to his life and assassination while the magazine returned to the subject the following week with expanded coverage of the funeral and its aftermath. Life. Chicago: Time Inc. April 1968. Complete issue approximately 11 x 14 inches; unsigned. The magazine belongs to Life's distinctive tradition of large-format photojournalism through which photographs and illustrated reporting brought major political and social events into American homes. The documented April 12 issue Vol. 64 No. 15 included a feature on King describing him as a major civil rights leader and presenting photographs associated with his death in Memphis; museum cataloging records an approximate physical size of 13½ x 10½ inches closely corresponding to the measurements supplied for this copy. Because the exact day of publication is not supplied for the present copy the specific April issue and its internal articles should be confirmed from the magazine itself before assigning the April 12 or April 19 date. Produced during the immediate aftermath of King's assassination the issue has research value as evidence of how one of the nation's most influential mass-circulation picture magazines framed his death for a broad American readership. Its proximity to the event distinguishes it from later commemorative publications preserving the visual and editorial language through which King's assassination entered contemporary public memory. Minor wear to spine; otherwise no specific defects noted; overall near fine. A substantial contemporary periodical source for the study of Martin Luther King Jr. the Civil Rights Movement African American history photojournalism and the national response to political assassination. unknown

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