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Resurrection City: Untitled

1968; printed September 2017

Washington, District of Columbia, 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 silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of police officers with helmets and batons ushering a man onto a bus. A row of busses is visible along the left side of the image. People's arms and hands are protruding through some of the metal studded bus windows. A pile of personal belongings, including bags and clothing, sits next to the door to the bus. In the background, people hold their arms out of the windows. The print is signed on the back in graphite [Jill Freedman].

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Catalog reference: 2017.81.16

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