Marchers in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, 1963 March on Washington

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Object Details

Author

Wallace, James

Subject

King, Martin Luther Jr. 1929-1968

Notes

Featured in "Torch," August 1983.

Summary

In 1963, free-lance photographer Jim Wallace - later director of the Smithsonian's Office of Printing and Photographic Services - recorded Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, 1963 march on Washington. Wallace's photographs were among those presented in the "March on Washington: The Wind and Fire of a Dream," an exhibit which opened at the National Museum of American History in time for the twentieth anniversary of the march on August 28, 1983. Printed in the "Torch," August 1983.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: August 1983

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

August 28, 1963

20th century

Standard number

SIA2011-2223

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Object

Document

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 7.25w x 5h; Type of Image: Object; Medium: Photographic print

Place

United States

Washington (D.C.)

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Demonstrations

Anniversaries

Civil rights movements--History

Civil rights

Civil rights demonstrations

Metadata Usage

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Record ID

siris_sic_13017