Moneta J. Sleet Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, eulogized in New York.(includes a reprint of a letter of condolence from Coretta Scott King)(Obituary)

Jet | October 21, 1996 | Copyright

There were flowers from Oprah Winfrey and Patti LaBelle, messages from Attorney General Janet Reno, Coretta Scott King and other civil rights leaders, tears, laughter and poetry at the funeral of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Moneta J. Sleet Jr. in the Unity Church of Christianity in the Long Island, NY, community of Valley Stream.

Hailed as one of the greatest photographers of the Freedom Movement and as a gentle giant with "a constant smile like a great flowing river," the Johnson Publishing Company photographer was celebrated in a simple and moving ceremony ...

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