File:Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery arrest 1958.jpg

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Description	Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for "loitering" in 1958.
Date	Taken on 4 September 1958
Source	eBay front back
Author	Associated Press
Permission (Reusing this file)	Pre-1978, no mark Original copyright registrations in artwork were checked for the year 1958. There were no registrations for Associated Press; there's no evidence that copyright was ever registered for this photo. More information indicates that this photo was taken by Charles Moore, who was a photographer for the newspaper The Montgomery Advertiser at the time. A search of original registrations in artwork for the year 1958, from July to December 1958, shows no original registrations for the photo, taken in September 1958, by either the newspaper or Charles Moore. A further check was done in original registrations for publications for the year 1958 from July to December, shows that the newspaper did not file copyrights for any of its editions during this period of time.

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current	18:02, 7 October 2014	808 × 683 (123 KB)	Renamed user 995577823Xyn	brighter
	17:25, 7 October 2014	808 × 683 (117 KB)	Renamed user 995577823Xyn	cropped and auto corrected
	17:24, 7 October 2014	640 × 1,140 (249 KB)	Renamed user 995577823Xyn	{{Information \|Description=Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for "loitering" in 1958. \|Source=[http://www.ebay.com/itm/1958-Wire-Photo-MARTIN-LUTHER-KING-JR-Civil-Rights-Leader-ARRESTED-/281436463095?pt=LH_Defa...