Martin Luther King, Jr. and Andrew Young

Object Details

Artist: Charmian Reading, 1930 - 2014
Sitter: Martin Luther King, Jr., 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968; Andrew Young, born 12 Mar 1932

Exhibition Label: Martin Luther King Jr. and Andrew Young, March Against Fear, Grenada, Mississippi; On June 7, 1966, King hurried to Memphis, Tennessee, to huddle with fellow civil rights leaders Floyd McKissick (new national director of the Congress of Racial Equality) and Stokely Carmichael (new chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) after activist James Meredith was wounded by a shotgun blast on the second day of his planned one-man march from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. Despite increasing rivalries among their respective organizations, King, McKissick, and Carmichael vowed to carry on Meredith’s 220-mile March Against Fear under the co-sponsorship of SCLC, CORE, and SNCC. Intended to serve in part as a black voter registration drive, the march resumed and gathered strength as it moved through the countryside along Highway 51. When the marchers reached Grenada, Mississippi—described by Time magazine as "a white supremacist stronghold"—they staged an evening rally at the town’s Jefferson Davis memorial, where King and other leaders addressed the crowd.

1966 (printed 1986)

National Portrait Gallery

Topic: Exterior; Human Figures; Human Figures\Crowd; Andrew Young: Male; Andrew Young: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Pastor; Andrew Young: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist; Andrew Young: Politics and Government\US Congressman\Georgia; Andrew Young: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Ambassador\United Nations; Andrew Young: Politics and Government\Public Official\Mayor\Atlanta, GA; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Male; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Activist\Civil rights activist\Civil rights leader; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Religion and Spirituality\Clergy\Minister; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nobel Prize; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Presidential Medal of Freedom; Martin Luther King, Jr.: Congressional Gold Medal; Portrait

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