Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
John Lewis and Sister Mary Leoline Hand in Hand, Selma to Montgomery March
1965
Alabama, United States, North and Central America
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 digital image of a close-up of John Lewis and Sister Mary Leoline holding hands. Lewis stands on the left, wearing a light colored trench coat with a white lei. Sister Mary stands in the middle, wearing a nun's habit with a large silver cross necklace. Her other hand is reaching to the right toward an unidentified man wearing a dark overcoat and lei.
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Catalog reference: 2015.129.48
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