Photograph of participants at the 20th Anniversary March on Washington

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A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of a crowd of participants standing along the edge of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool holding protest signs, during the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, August 27, 1983. The participants are gathered along the edge of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. In the central foreground participants are holding up Laborers' District Council of Washington, D.C. and Vicinity/LIUNA/AFL-CIO protest signs that read [SOLIDARITY] and graphic of two (2) hands clasping and signs that read [20th / Anniversary / MOBILIZATION FOR / JOBS, PEACE / AND FREEDOM / AUGUST 27, 1983 / Lincoln Memorial, / Washington, DC / WE / SHARE / THE / DREAM / AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO / MOE BILLER, President] with a graphic of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Washington Monument is centrally depicted in the background.

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