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date: label: Date
content: 1963; printed ca. 2021
name: label: Photograph by
content: James P. Blair, American, 1931 - 2021
label: Subject of
content: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963
notes: label: Caption
content: Printed caption from James P. Blair: Not a project, 1963, USA, The March on Washington. At the end of Dr. King’s speach [sic], we all 260,000 of us joined hands and sang “We shall overcome, we shall overcome someday, I do believe, we shall overcome someday!”
label: Description
content: A color photograph by James P. Blair of the crowd of participants at the 1963 March on Washington. The image depicts a large crowd of different ages, genders and races gathered between the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Washington Monument is visible in the far background. In the foreground of the image are rows of seated men and women with arms crossed in front of them and holding hands with the people on either side of them. Someone in the crowd holds up a placard that reads “WE DEMAND / AN END / TO / POLICE / BRUTALITY / NOW!” The print is signed by the photographer at the lower left corner and labeled [9 of 9]. A caption by the photographer is printed along the bottom margin.
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: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Communities
label: Topic
content: Local and regional
label: Topic
content: Photography
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Not a project, 1963, USA, The March on Washington
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Jim and Elise Blair
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2021.67.9
objectType: label: Type
content: inkjet prints
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of James P. Blair
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on photographic paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 10 × 15 in. (25.4 × 38.1 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (paper): 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm)