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Moneta Sleet, Jr., the first African-American photographer and second African-American to receive a Pulitzer Prize, won the 1969 award in Feature Photography for "Deep Sorrow." Sleet captured a powerful image of Dr. Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and one of their children at King's funeral. The photograph was originally published in Ebony.

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