Flying High

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

This color photograph shows three young boys in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, in 1981. One of the boys flips over two broken mattresses. The other two boys stand behind the mattresses, facing inward. A Coca-Cola sign is on the building in the background. The back of the photograph is inscribed with the title and photographer Jamel Shabazz’s signature.

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