Young girl in tent doorway - Resurrection City, Wash., D.C. - 1968

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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.

This image depicts a young girl peering out between the flaps of a yellow tent in Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. The girl leans slightly to her right to look around the edge of the yellow tent flap. She wears a pale yellow dress and beige button down cardigan. Her hair is braided and she has a pencil tucked through a braid on the crown of her head. Although facing forward, her eyes are focused to the right of the viewer. Behind the girl within the tent is a folding cot on which are four small children. A fifth small child in a red jacket stands at the end of the cot and looks towards the tent entrance.

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