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Mr. Leo Walker weeding his cotton field as the Mule Train departs Marks, Mississippi, bound for Washington, DC

May 13, 1968

Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, 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 black and white photographic print depicts a man standing in a field. Standing slightly stooped and with his left side to the viewer, he holds a farm implement in both hands, with one end in the soil. He wears a hat and pair of overalls with a light colored object in the left rear pocket. A wagon train is visible in the background. There is a Roland L. Freeman sticker on the back.

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Catalog reference: 2016.125.5

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