Photograph of Leaders at the Head of the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
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U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 - ca. 1978)
Title
Photograph of Leaders at the Head of the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
Description
English: This United States Information Agency photograph of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963.
Shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph,
Walter Reuther, and Sam Weinblatt. (80-G-413998)
National archive number 80-G-16871
In the Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 of the National Archives magazine, Prologue, named this image one of its top ten requested images[1]
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