At the end of a service marking the twelfth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the congregation of New York's Riverside Church, was led in singing "We Shall Overcome," by participants including, from left: Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Ms. Marion Hollingsworth, chairperson of the commemorative service; New York Judge Bruce Wright; the Rev. George Thomas, minister of outreach and institutional relations of Riverside Church; the church's pastor, Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr.; Dr. Edward Lowe and Benjamin Lorick, both black Christian caucus leaders of the congregation and the Rev. Dr. Eugene Laubach, the church's coordinating minister.
Coretta Scott King, Dr. Harold DeWolf, Dean Jim L. Waits, and Dr. Noel Erskine sing hymnals at an Emory University seminar studying the theology of Martin Luther King, Jr.