- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- A Group of March on Washington Demonstrators Standing in Union Station, August 28, 1963
- Date of Original:
- 1963-08-28
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Railroads - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Civil rights demonstrators wait for trains in Union Station to ride home after the March on Washington. Caption on photo reads: (WX36) WASHINGTON, AUG. 36 -- THEY'LL RIDE HOME -- Union Station is jammed with homeward bound civil rights demonstrators after today's March on Washington. A threatened railroad strike was averted with Congress passing and President Kennedy signing legislation requiring arbitration of the rail dispute.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02262
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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