Young Welfare Rights

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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 black-and-white photograph of people with National Welfare Rights Organization picket signs on the streets of Washington, DC during the Poor People's Campaign. The image depicts a man in the foreground with a mustache, a pinstripe suit jacket, a collared shirt, a patterned necktie, and a pocket square. He is holding a sign in his proper right hand. There are several people marching behind him and a man in the background is taking a photograph. The signs have an infinity symbol and read [NATIONWIDE WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION] on different sides of the rectangle. There is a white border around the image. The photograph is signed "Laura Jones" on the proper left side below the image. The back of the photograph is blank.

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