Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Military Police Standing Guard during Delivery of Latrines for Marchers
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 line of Military Police standing watch over a delivery of latrines. The policemen stand in a line wearing helmets labeled [MP] and holding guns over their right shoulders. On the left of the image, a large truck has two sets of latrines. A group of men are shown holding the outer edge of the truck or standing a little back looking at the truck. Some of the ground by the truck has been overturned.
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Catalog reference: 2015.129.68
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