Photograph of boy holding a protest sign during the March on Washington

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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.

A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a boy taken on the day of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. The boy is depicted center, facing the viewer. He is holding a partially obscured sign over his proper right shoulder that reads [WE MARCH TOGETHER / CATHOLIC / JEWS / PROTESTANT / FOR DIGNITY / AND BROTHERHOOD / [---?] MEN UNDER GOD / NOW!]. The boy is standing in front of several large piles of protest signs. In the background is a two story building and a striped tent. On the right side of the image is a man in the foreground holding a protest sign upside-down. On the verso of the image are handwritten inscriptions that provide the image date, event information, location, image number, the name of the printer, and the signature of the donor.

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