1968 Coretta Scott King and her daughter at her husband Martin Luther king funeral
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, "Fight of the Year", 1971
Sleet has also taken pictures of the less famous in various settings from civil rights marches to beauty contests. He was a major contributions to photojournalism and world history his chronicles of the American civil rights movement .He has recorded such major events as the famous 1963 march on Washington, D.C.; the 1965 Selma, Alabama march for voting rights