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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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Two youths pole through water in Resurrection City after a heavy rain the previous day, Washington D.C.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 13, 1968
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Poor People's March Beings in Memphis, with Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Reverend A.D. King, and Hosea Williams
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 2, 1968
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Officials of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference---the Reverend James Bevel, the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and Bernard LaFayette---discuss strategy for the Poor People's Campaign in Washington
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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April 18, 1968
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Aerial view of Resurrection City rising in plastic and plywood near the Washington Monument
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Unknown Photographer
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Gelatin silver print with resin coating on paper
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May 1968 (printed 1987)
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Civil Rights leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy shakes hands with a police officer after serving a 20-day sentence at the District of Columbia jail for attempting to lead an unlawful assembly on the Capitol grounds
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Burroughs, Henry
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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January 1, 1968
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People in "Resurrection City", the plywood town in Washington DC where the Poor People's Campaign is centered
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Daughtery, Bob
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 18, 1968
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Reies Lopez Tijerina (center) tells the audience waiting to launch the Poor People's Campaign march at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis why his group is taking part
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 2, 1968
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Reies Tijerina, leader of the Mexican-American group of the Poor People's Campaign, addresses demonstrators outside the Supreme Court
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Schutz, Bob
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 29, 1968
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This park alongside the Reflecting Pool will probably be the site where participants in the Poor People's March will camp in Washington DC
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 10, 1968
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This air view shows the lack of plywood housing in "Resurrection City"
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Daughtery, Bob
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 17, 1968
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Congressman John M. Murphy is one of the few legislators who has visited Resurrection City, the camp site for the Poor People's March on Washington
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print with blue wax pencil on paper
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May 28, 1968
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Two children who are residents of Resurrection City look for shoes that fit
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Tasnadi, Charles
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 21, 1968
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Several hundred black people ended a state-wide Poor People's March to the state capital in Tallahassee, Florida
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Hudson, Bill
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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March 4, 1971
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Members of the Poor People's Campaign load their mule train wagons onto a freight train in Atlanta
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 16, 1968
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Marchers walk along Richmond Terrace near Pelton Avenue on Staten Island
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Parsons, Robert
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1968
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Poor People's Campaign, Albany contingent
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
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June 1968
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Chairman Joseph Clark (D-Pennsylvania) speaks with Reverend Ralph Abernathy in Washington DC. The leader of the Poor People's Campaign appeared as a witness at a Senate Labor and Public Welfare subcommittee.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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April 30, 1968
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Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Eugene McCarthy stand side by side at the Poor People's Campaign demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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June 20, 1968
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Reverend Ralph Abernathy addresses a rally on Boston Common after a march that was part of the northeast leg of the Poor People's March on Washington
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Curtin, Frank
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 9, 1968
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Mrs. Coretta King, left, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., is accompanied by SCLC officials and a security guard as she arrives at Memphis Airport to join the Poor People's Campaign
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Massey, Toby
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 1, 1968
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Reverend Ralph Abernathy, leader of the Poor People's Campaign, arrives at the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach
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Coya, Albert
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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August 6, 1968
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Reverend and Mrs. Ralph David Abernathy acknowledge applause at a rally of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's convention in Memphis
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Kelly, Charles
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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August 17, 1968
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A small boy from Memphis sits in front of his plywood shack set up by the Lincoln Memorial during the Poor People's Campaign
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Harrity, Charles
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Vintage wire photograph on paper
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May 14, 1968
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference officials Leon Hall and Hosea Williams lead volunteers to a church in Montgomery, Alabama for a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King
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Arnold, Effort
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Vintage gelatin silver print on paper
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May 8, 1968
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Reies Tijerina, leader of the Mexican-Indian contingent of the Poor People's Campaign, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference official Rudolph Thompson exchange words at Resurrection City in Washington DC
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage wire photograph with applied pigment on paper
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May 27, 1968
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