Skip to main content
Label Text This image was taken by a photojournalist working under the employ of the Associated Press, a US news agency founded in 1846 and still in operation today. These photographers endeavored to take in-focus, direct, and straightforward illustrations that would clearly communicate important events with the American public. Documentary photography of social protest movements (and particularly police violence) played a major role in shaping public opinion in these years.  
DimensionsOverall: 7 x 9 3/4 in. (17.8 x 24.8 cm)
Accession Number 2025.257
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King Jr., rehearses in Constitution Hall for her narration of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" which she will give February 12th as a part of Abraham Lincoln's 160th birthday anniversary celebration, which President Nixon plans to attend. At right is the celebrated composer, Washington, February 11, 1969
Image Not Available for Mrs. Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Martin Luther King Jr., rehearses in Constitution Hall for her narration of Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" which she will give February 12th as a part of Abraham Lincoln's 160th birthday anniversary celebration, which President Nixon plans to attend. At right is the celebrated composer, Washington, February 11, 1969
Image Not Available for Mrs. Coretta Scott King narrates Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" during a Memorial Day concert, by the Washington National Symphony, dedicated to her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr. on May 31. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Memorial May 30, where the Poor People's Campaign is encamped. Seated at left is Howard Mitchell, music director, Washington DC, June 1, 1968
Mrs. Coretta Scott King narrates Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" during a Memorial Day concert, by the Washington National Symphony, dedicated to her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr. on May 31. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Memorial May 30, where the Poor People's Campaign is encamped. Seated at left is Howard Mitchell, music director, Washington DC, June 1, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
President Johnson ordered some 9,500 Army and National Guard troops to restore order during the wake of riotous looting, burning, and terrorizing by roving bands of Negro youths which began after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King in Memphis. For two days the capital was the scene of violent unrest as pillaging and arson swept through the predominantly negro sections of the city across the downtown shopping area within two blocks of the White House... May 14, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, Born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809 (Photographed by Brady)
Winslow Homer
November 10, 1860
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Rough Riders Aboard A Captured Russ Truck: there’s nothing like a joyride on a captured Russian truck. Here, GIs of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division happily waved their own and captured enemy rifles as they rode atop a seized Russian truck in the Shau Valley in the northern part of South Vietnam. Other GIs on road gave them the “thumbs up” sign in celebration. The soldiers found this truck and three others in an enemy cache of assorted weapons while on Operation Delaware which seeks to invade the A Shau Valley, April 26, 1968
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Callers at the Capitol: Civil rights leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy, right, and A.D. King, brother of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, are shown on the steps of the Capitol discussing the second day of the Poor People's March. Dr. King was assassinated April 4, April 30, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Namur assiegée par le Roy (Namur besieged by the King), from "Les Petites Conquêtes du Roi (The Small Conquests of the King)"
Sébastien Le Clerc the elder
1702
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The President, speaking at the White House, pledged the "nation can and shall and will overcome." He also ordered the American Flag to be flown at half staff in tribute to Dr. King, Washington D.C., April 5, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Revenge Riots Sweep America: President Johnson called federal troops into the ntaion's capital yesterday to restore peace to this frightened city after a day of arson, looting and violence in the wake of the slaying of Negro civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King. Here, a trooper stands gaurd in the street as another (left) patrols a completely demolished building. Negroes in at least 20 cities demonstrated their anger in violence at the death of Dr. King, April 6, 1968
Unknown
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The Inaugural of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, at the Capitol, Washington, March 4, 1861.
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Presidents Buchanan and Lincoln Entering the Senate Chamber Before the Inauguration
Winslow Homer
March 16, 1861
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lincoln Continental, Ukok Plateau, Siberian Altai, Russia, from "Ryoichi Excavations"
Patrick Nagatani
1995/2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Lincoln Bar, Manhattan
Paul J. Woolf
ca. 1932