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New Orleans, May 2017.

Photo: James Floyd

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Easter. Very seriously.

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Holy Week in Spain, March 2016.

Collected by The Atlantic.

Funtown

King said in an interview that this photograph was taken as he tried to explain to his daughter Yolanda why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park in Atlanta. King claimed to have been tongue-tied when speaking to her.

"One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky."