With the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occurring this past Wednesday, it was easy to come up with this week’s subject matter. Here are a few of the images found in the series “Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, 1961 – 1974” (306-SSM).
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Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-D-102-15. “Civil Rights March on Washington. Leaders of the march posing in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Memorial”, August 28, 1963, Photograph by Rowland Scherman
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Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-D-107-16 “Civil Rights March on Washington. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking”, August 28, 1963, Photograph by Rowland Scherman
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Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-D-80-10 “Civil Rights March on Washington. A wide-angle view of marchers along the mall, showing the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument”, 08/28/1963
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Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-C-61-32 “Photograph of a Young Woman (Edith Lee-Payne) at the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. with a Banner”, 08/28/1963, Photograph by Rowland Scherman
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Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-C-54-26 “Civil Rights March on Washington. Former National Baseball League player, Jackie Robinson with his son”, 08/28/1963, Photograph by Rowland Scherman
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Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-D-99-10 “Civil Rights March on Washington. Author James Baldwin and actor Marlon Brando”, 08/28/1963, Photograph by Rowland Scherman