Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Woman in brown dress with children - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. - 1968
May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968
Washington, District of Columbia, 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.
This image depicts a woman and two young children standing at the entrance of a yellow tent at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. One yellow tent flap is folded back allowing the woman to peek though the opening. She wears a brown dress and black flat shoes. At her side are two small children, the taller child in a striped red white and blue shirt and blue pants. The child leans against the woman’s left side. On his other side is a much smaller child wearing an off-white onesie. The woman has her left arm around both children with her left hand resting on the smallest child's head. Behind them inside the tent another child is visible.
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Catalog reference: 2014.116.35
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