Image:March on washington Aug 28 1963.jpg

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This United States Information Agency photograph of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther. (80-G-413998)

  • National archive number 80-G-16871
Source

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/winter/top-images.html
Date

August 28, 1963
Author

United States Information Agency
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(Reusing this image)
Public domain This work was obtained from the now defunct United States Information Agency. In 1999 the agency was merged into the Bureau of Public Affairs which is the part of the United States Department of State. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of 17 U.S.C. § 105.



In the Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4 of the National Archives magazine, Prologue, named this image one of its top ten requested images[1]

The other 10 were:

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Lt. Victor Jorgenson's picture of the VJ Day Kiss at Times Square

We Can Do It! Poster

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Ansel Adams, The Tetons and the Snake River

March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther
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Iwo Jima flag raising

[edit] Sources

  1. ↑ By Ellen Fried (Winter 2004, Vol. 36, No. 4). From Pearl Harbor to Elvis: Images That Endure. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.

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Image title Landscape
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File change date and time 13:50, 29 December 2004
Author NARA
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