- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- March on Washington Demonstrators Walking Towards Buses, 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.)
Demonstrations - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- March on Washington attendees are shown finding their transportation home along a service roadway containing a number of buses with the U.S. Capitol building in the background. Caption on photo reads: (WX2) WASHINGTON, AUG. 29 -- HEADING BACK HOME -- Passengers for out-of-town buses walk along service roadway of the Mall in Washington yesterday to find their transportation home after the civil rights demonstration. Police estimated the crowd at more than 200,000.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02266
- 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
Series: Photographs; Subseries: SCLC - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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