Photograph of a participant 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 man standing in front of a large banner during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. The man is depicted on the left side of the image wearing sunglasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and a bow tie. The man is looking towards the right side of the image and straightening his bowtie. The man is standing in front of a large, painted banner depicting Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. King is painted in three-quarters bust pose with his proper right hand resting on his chin and his proper right index finger on his cheek. 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.

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