Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Digital image of March on Washington participants
August 28, 1963
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.
A black and white image of a group of March on Washington participants. At the center of the image is a man in dark clothing with a white clerical collar. He is holding a partially eaten sandwich in his proper left hand. There is a woman in a floral dress next to him on the proper left side. She is wearing a camera around her neck, a white March on Washington pinback button, and an arm band. There is a man on her proper left side in a white shirt. There is also a man on the proper right side in a white short-sleeve shirt with a white March on Washington pinback button. His face cannot be seen. There is a crowd of people standing behind them and there are trees in the background.
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Catalog reference: 2016.157.59
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