Pictures Of Martin Luther King Jr In Color 33,842 Martin Luther King

Jordan J Lloyd has added digital colour to black-and-white photos of Dr King and the civil rights movement.. A Collection of Rare Color Photographs Depicts MLK Leading the Chicago Freedom Movement The Smithsonian has acquired some of the only known images of Martin Luther King Jr. at the momentous protest

The resulting photographs show King at the podium and also capture the crowd attending the speech. Moss rediscovered the photos, about 50 years later, after her father passed away in 2013.. Why do nearly all Martin Luther King Jr. pictures look black and white? The answer has more to do with newsrooms than history itself.