Sleet, Moneta J., Jr.

Sleet, Moneta J., Jr.
▪ 1997

      U.S. Ebony magazine photographer who captured many of the defining images of the U.S. civil rights struggle and won a Pulitzer Prize for his poignant photograph of Coretta Scott King at the funeral of her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. Feb. 14, 1926—d. Sept. 30, 1996).

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