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March on Washington, 1963: Many New Photographs Digitized

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The following is a guest post by Helena Zinkham, Chief, Prints & Photographs Division. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a landmark Civil Rights demonstration held on August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC. We have photographs in many collections that document this famous event. But the U.S. News & World Report Collection …

Posted in: African American History, News & Events, Photographs, Visual literacy

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Augustus Washington, Daguerreotypist

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

Strange as it may appear, whatever may be a colored man’s natural capacity and literary attainments, I believe that, as soon as he leaves the academic halls to mingle in the only society he can find in the United States, unless he be a minister or lecturer, he must and will retrograde. –Augustus Washington, letter …

Posted in: African American History, Photographs, Portraits