📸 The Life and Legacy of Moneta Sleet Jr.

The camera did not tremble, though the nation did.On April 9, 1968, as the world mourned the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., one photographer moved quietly through the grief in Atlanta. He was not chasing spectacle. He was searching for truth in a face. When he found it — in the composed, shattered dignity of Coretta Scott King holding her daughter — he pressed the shutter.That photographer was Moneta Sleet Jr.. And the image he made would change American journalism.Born on February 14,