Julian_Wasser_Martin_Luther_King_in_LA_Hilton_Asmus_Contemporary

Martin Luther King speaking at a civil rights rally in central Los Angeles in 1963. Julian Wasser took this photo for TIME Magazine. Years later former president Barack Obama purchased this photograph, which hung in the White House for 8 years. It was also used as a model for a glass sculpture memorial to Dr. King in Kansas City.

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