Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Digital print of King and others during a Chicago Freedom Movement rally
July 1965; printed 2012
Grant Park, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
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 color photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others around a microphone. From left to right: Dr. King, a woman, a man in glasses at center, and another man on the right. Dr. King gazes fixedly at the man opposite him, who gazes back. The central figure faces the viewer. The men are dressed in dark suit and ties. The crowd surrounding them is clapping. There is an indistinct building in the background.
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Catalog reference: 2013.140.29
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