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Faces in the Crowd, Selma to Montgomery March

1965

Alabama, 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 digital image of a crowd of men, women, and children, with an older woman and child in the center. Everyone in the image is facing to the right of the image. The woman, at the center of the image, is wearing a light colored overcoat, dark gloves, and feather bucket hat. She has her hands clasped on the back of a younger girl's neck in front of her. The image is taken outside, and telephone poles can be seen in the background.

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Catalog reference: 2015.129.42

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