People Waiting To Attend Malcolm X's Funeral, February 24, 1965

1965-02-24

1960-1969

A crowd of people are shown lined up outside of Unity Funeral Chapel waiting to attend Malcolm X's funeral in New York City. Written on verso: From New York. WAITING TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS - Standees wait behind police barricades at 126th Street and Eighth Avenue in New York, Feb. 24, for entry to the Unity Funeral Chapel where slain Muslim Leader Malcolm X is laid out. As precautionary measure police searched all packages being carried by persons entering the chapel. Unity Funeral Home.

African American civil rights workers
Funeral rites and ceremonies

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The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection

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Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

New York (State)--New York

Series: Photographs; Subseries: People

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