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Published ReferencesAssociated Press ID # 630828022
DimensionsSheet: 6 1/2 x 8 7/16 in. (16.5 x 21.4 cm)
Image: 5 7/16 x 6 5/8 in. (13.8 x 16.8 cm)
Accession Number 2024.204
Classificationsphotograph
InscriptionsCVL-DC-010.1 (verso l,l graphite) 1500 (verso l,r graphite) 86 (verso l,l ink) CD-10 (verso l,l graphite) D.C: SEGREGATION 23.E. (verso u,l red pencil) Reflecting Pool Is Rimmed By Thousands Of Marchers —AP Wirephoto (verso center printed on pasted paper)
MarksAUG 29 1963 (verso center red stamp ink) RSF 37473 (verso c,l blue stamped ink)
Crowd for Ceremonies: General view, taken from top of Lincoln Memorial, shows crowd assembled at the memorial and around the Washington Monument reflection pool to hear speakers in ceremonies following the March on Washington parade by civil rights groups here today, August 28, 1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Resting After the March: Part of the crowd assembled near the Lincoln Memorial following March on Washington parade soak their feet in the reflection pool near the memorial today as others stand and sit behind, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Image Not Available for Massed Marchers at Memorial: From a helicopter, this is the way the March on Washington demonstrators looked today during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. Thousands jammed the area after a sign-carrying parade from the Washington Monument grounds, August 28, 1963
Massed Marchers at Memorial: From a helicopter, this is the way the March on Washington demonstrators looked today during ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial. Thousands jammed the area after a sign-carrying parade from the Washington Monument grounds, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
On the Move: Supporters of the Poor People' Campaign line both sides of the Reflecting Pool and fill the foreground at the Lincoln Memorial today at the start of Solidarity Day ceremonies. The demonstrators gathered at the Washington Monument, in background, and moved in an orderly but disorganized fashion to the Memorial, June 19, 1968
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1968
Image Not Available for Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Freedom Marchers in Washington: An estimated 200,000 marched upon Washington earlier this week in a major demonstration asking for Civic Freedoms for all. A large section of the crowd, which came from all parts of the USA, consisted of Negroes. Photo shows a section of the large crowd which gathered in the United States capital for the demonstration, August 31, 1963
Unknown
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The task of cleaning up the Lincoln Memorial area began immediately after the crowd of more than 200,000 persons disperse after attending the civil rights march in Washington, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
March on Washington: This aerial view shows civil rights demonstrators participating in the March on Washington as they gather in the Washington Monument area. The striped tent in the upper half houses the headquarters of the march organizers, August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Ceremonial Laughter: Thurgood Marshall, who had just taken his oath as Solicitor General of the United States, breaks into laughter during his swearing-in ceremony in the White House cabinet room in Washington, D.C., Aug. 24, 1965. In attendance, from left, are: his wife Cecilia and their two sons, Thurgood Jr., 9, and John, 7; President Johnson; Associate Justice Hugo Black of the Supreme Court, who administered the oath; and Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, August 24, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Image Not Available for Crowd gathers around National Mall during the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C., August 28, 1963
Crowd gathers around National Mall during the March on Washington For Jobs and Freedom, Washington D.C., August 28, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Mexico (Five women), from the "Early Mexico" series
1952-1957
Image Not Available for Mrs. Coretta Scott King narrates Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" during a Memorial Day concert, by the Washington National Symphony, dedicated to her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr. on May 31. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Memorial May 30, where the Poor People's Campaign is encamped. Seated at left is Howard Mitchell, music director, Washington DC, June 1, 1968
Mrs. Coretta Scott King narrates Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" during a Memorial Day concert, by the Washington National Symphony, dedicated to her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr. on May 31. The concert was originally scheduled to be held at the Lincoln Memorial May 30, where the Poor People's Campaign is encamped. Seated at left is Howard Mitchell, music director, Washington DC, June 1, 1968
Unknown
1968
Image Not Available for Bishop Smallwood B. Williams (center), Washington representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads prayer for hundreds of Negro demonstrators who assembled across from the White House After the prayer meeting, the group marched to the Justice Department to protest racial discrimination in Washington, June 14, 1963
Bishop Smallwood B. Williams (center), Washington representative of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads prayer for hundreds of Negro demonstrators who assembled across from the White House After the prayer meeting, the group marched to the Justice Department to protest racial discrimination in Washington, June 14, 1963
Unknown
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
White House Introduction: President Eisenhower reaches across George M. Johnson, new member of the Civil Rights Commission, to shake hands with Johnson's wife at the end of a ceremony swearing him into the post. Johnson, who holds his commission, is the former dean of the Howard University School of Law, Washington D.C., June 9, 1959
1959