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Digital print of a mob during a Chicago Freedom Movement march

August 5, 1966; printed 2012

Marquette Park neighborhood, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 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 color photograph of a mob at a Clark gas station. Colored flags hang overhead and figures are standing in front of gas pumps. Many of the men are in motion. The man in the lower left, wearing a white shirt, is crouched down. Another man, in the center without a shirt, appears to have just thrown something. The mob's attention is focused to the viewer’s left at something outside the frame.

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Catalog reference: 2013.140.20

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