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Group portrait of Anderson and others in front of the U. S. Capitol

May 1965

Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photograph print of the photographer, H.C. Anderson, with others in front of the U.S. Capitol building, captured while Congress debated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The group stands in a semi-circle in the foreground with the U.S. Capitol behind them. Anderson is at the far left, leaning upon a parked car.

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Catalog reference: 2012.137.3.2

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