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Woman at tent doorway - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. - 1968

May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968

Washington, District of Columbia, 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.

This image depicts a young woman standing at the entrance of one of the yellow tents at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. Framed by the tent flaps of yellow material she gazes directly at the viewer. She is dressed in a blue knit shirt with a fold over collar and a vee-neckline. There is some clear and white material, possibly a wad of tape, stuck to one tent flap at head level.

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Catalog reference: 2014.116.34

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