Photograph of participants at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a crowd of participants standing in front of the Washington Monument during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. The base of the Washington Monument is centrally depicted in the background. The participants are milling along the grassy areas and pathways that extend from and encircle the monument. Two (2) men on the left and right foreground of the image are walking bicycles on the grass. In the central foreground are two (2) men in white shirts standing with their arms crossed over their chests looking at the viewer. On the verso of the image are handwritten inscriptions that provide the image date, event information, location, image number, the name of the printer, and the signature of the donor. There are also two (2) stamp marks in black ink in the bottom right corner of the verso.

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