Poor People's Campaign, 1968

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15 photographs; subjects include police with scooters and dozens of demonstrators, including Coretta Scott King and members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), women marchers from the Nationwide Welfare Rights Organization, and the Washington, DC chapter of the radical sixties counterculture group "Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers"; also included are close-ups and aerial shots of the protesters' squatter settlement on the National Mall known as "Resurrection City"

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