This black-and-white photograph captures demonstrators marching down Main Street in Memphis holding placards that read, "Honor King: End Racism" and "Union Justice Now." The sign for Florsheim Shoes appears at top left.

Marchers on Main Street: Marchers on Main Street in Memphis after the assassination of Dr. King. Memphis, Tennessee, 1968

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1968; printed 1994

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