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Digital print of King surrounded by Chicago Freedom Movement marchers

August 5, 1966; printed 2012

Marquette Park, 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 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. surrounded by marchers. He is wearing a gray suit, white shirt with no tie, and is touching his lapel with his right hand. Three of the men surrounding him turn and look to the viewer's left. A fourth man, to Dr. King's right, looks to to the viewer's right. Dr. King gazes straight ahead.

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2013.140.23

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