How Civil Rights Era, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photo was Gifted to Murray State

News February 12, 2016

Listen to Special Collections & Exhibits Librarian Sarah Hopley talk about how Moneta Sleet Jr.'s Pulitzer winning photograph of Coretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, and more special items, landed there.

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