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King Center Photo- Eric Mason
Funeral Wagon that carried Dr. King to his final resting place in April 1968 on public display for the first time in 35 years.
“FROM MEMPHIS TO ATLANTA: THE DRUM MAJOR RETURNS HOME”
Unique Exhibit Opens for the Month of April to Visitors
A unique and never-before seen exhibit opened on April 4th at the National Park Service Visitor Center that includes the wagon that carried Dr. King’s casket throughout his funeral events in Atlanta, files, photographs and handwritten notes from Mrs. Coretta Scott King’s files on the funeral, and a collection of photographs surrounding the events of Dr. King’s last couple days alive through his interment, April 3-9, 1968.
The exhibit is a collaboration between The King Center and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site and is expected to draw an estimated 20,000 visitors during the month-long viewing.
King Center Photo- Eric Mason
Mrs. Coretta Scott King points to one of the photographs on display to further describe the emotions of the events surrounding her husband’s funeral.
On April 3, 2003, Mrs. Coretta Scott King and Mrs. Christine King Farris, Dr. King’s sister, previewed the exhibit privately and were clearly moved by it’s content.
Mrs. King hopes that by viewing this special exhibit visitors walk away “with a sense of recommitment to those things Martin struggled for. If we continue to work on creating a better world, a peaceful world, then his death won’t have been in vain.”
The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. | 
