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Press conference

1968

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 photograph of men at a Poor People's Campaign press conference. The image depicts two men in the foreground speaking into microphones with several other men in the background. The man on the proper left side has a goatee and is wearing a collared black sweater under a patterned shirt. His hands are in front of him and his mouth is slightly open. There are three microphones in front of him. The man on the proper right side has glasses and a jacket. His mouth is also open. There is a thin black border around the image with a white border on the outside. The back of the photograph is blank.

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Catalog reference: 2017.109.14

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