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Digital image of March on Washington participants

August 28, 1963

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.

A black and white image of a group of March on Washington participants. At the center of the image is a man in dark clothing with a white clerical collar. He is holding a partially eaten sandwich in his proper left hand. There is a woman in a floral dress next to him on the proper left side. She is wearing a camera around her neck, a white March on Washington pinback button, and an arm band. There is a man on her proper left side in a white shirt. There is also a man on the proper right side in a white short-sleeve shirt with a white March on Washington pinback button. His face cannot be seen. There is a crowd of people standing behind them and there are trees in the background.

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Catalog reference: 2016.157.59

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