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Photographic transparency of the Poor People's Campaign

May 21, 1968 - June 23, 1968

National Mall, 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 photographic slide depicts a group of men in denim shirts and pants, standing in a circle. Two men with grey cowboy hats stand with their back to the viewer. One man in profile to the viewer wears a white hat, while another man on the other side of the circle wears a red hat and a red bandana around his neck. Two men in white shirts, one wearing a straw hat, stand just outside the circle gazing at the group. With the transparency was a protective plastic sleeve with a sticker on the left side with both handwritten and stamped text.

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Catalog reference: 2015.245.267

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