Thursday, October 31, 2019

Quote: Moneta Sleet Jr. (Civil Rights, Ebony Magazine, Jet Magazine Photographer)

Speaking about his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of Coretta Scott King and her husband Dr. Martin Luther King's funeral.

"I was photographing the child as she was fidgeting on her mama's lap. Professionally, I was doing what I had been trained to do, and I was glad of that because I was very involved emotionally. If I hadn't been there working, I would have been off crying like everybody else,"

Corretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice, 9 April 1968