Photograph of three women at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of three women participating in the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington on August 27, 1983. The three women are wearing political tee-shirts supporting a presidential campaign for the Reverend Jesse Jackson. The two women on the left are wearing identical tee-shirts depicting an image of Jesse Jackson's face with text above and below that reads [JESSE JACKSON / for / PRESIDENT]. The woman on the right is wearing a tee-shirt that reads [12th / ANNUAL / PÜSH CONVENTION / ATLANTA] featuring an image of Jesse Jackson’s face above the faces of three (3) young men and one (1) young woman. All of the women have adorned their tee-shirts with one or more pinback buttons and the two women on the left side of the photograph are also wearing rectangular name tag stickers on their proper right shoulders.

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