<I>Resurrection City: Untitled</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1968; printed September 2017
name: label: Photograph by
content: Jill Freedman, American, born 1939
label: Subject of
content: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
label: Subject of
content: Unidentified Man or Men
label: Subject of
content: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957
notes: label: Caption
content: As the United States emerged in the 1960s as a global model of wealth and democracy, an estimated 35 million Americans lived in poverty.
label: Caption
content: From the elderly and underemployed to children and persons with disabilities, poverty affected people of every race, age, and region. Although President Lyndon B. Johnson had declared a “war on poverty” in 1964, social inequalities and unequal access to opportunities left many Americans struggling. Soon, many people felt the Vietnam War undermined the War on Poverty and other domestic issues.
label: Caption
content: In response, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy, organized a Poor People’s Campaign to confront poverty as a national human rights issue and help move it out of the shadows of the Vietnam War. As a multiethnic movement, thousands of Americans of all races and backgrounds descended on Washington, D.C. in May and June of 1968 for the six-week, live-in demonstration known as "Resurrection City," marking a new era in American history.
label: Caption
content: Photographer Jill Freedman captured this image of a SCLC marshal in Resurrection City wearing a pinback button with the Greek letter “Omega,” a symbol used by the draft resistance and anti-war movement.
label: Description
content: A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of man wearing an SCLC marshall badge and an Omega button. The man sits looking towards the camera, with his head tilted slightly down. He has wavy hair and a goatee with mustache. He wears a light button-down shirt with a darker color jacket. On the jacket is a SCLC Marshall badge that reads [POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN / NAME (RAYMOND MURRY / ADDRESS (CHICAGO ILLINOIS / BLOOD TYPE (IF KNOWN) [illegible] / SIGNATURE [illegible] / SCLC / 1401 U. STREET, NW / WASHINGTON, D.C. / [illegible] / MARSHAL]. Beneath the badge is an anti-Vietnam War draft pinback button with the Greek letter Omega on it. The print is signed on the back in graphite [Jill Freedman].
place: label: Place depicted
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Local and regional
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Poverty
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
label: Topic
content: Vietnam War, 1961-1975
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Resurrection City
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: African American - Latinx Solidarity
label: Movement
content: Poor People's Campaign
label: Movement
content: Anti-war movements
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.81.3
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Jill Freedman
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin and photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 12 15/16 × 8 11/16 in. (32.9 × 22 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (35 × 27.7 cm)