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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 Reverend Kirkpatrick strumming a guitar. Wearing a dark blue button down shirt over a tan shirt, he carries the guitar on a strap over his left shoulder. He is surrounded by a group of men who all gaze at sheets of paper held in their hands. These sheets of paper have text and images on them. There are trees in the background. With the transparency was a protective plastic sleeve with a sticker on the lower left corner with both handwrittten and stamped text.

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Catalog reference: 2015.245.277

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