Object Details
- Photograph by
- Robert Houston, American, born 1935
- Subject of
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Unidentified
- Description
- This image depicts a woman during the construction of Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. She is wearing a yellow cloth wrapped around her head. She is shown from the chest upwards, wearing a light grey button shirt, with an object hanging from a cloth strap around her neck. Wooden frames for temporary shelters are visible in the background.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert and Greta Houston
- May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968
- Object number
- 2014.116.37
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Robert Houston
- Type
- portraits
- digital images
- digital media - born analog
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 3179pixels × 2157pixels
- Place captured
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Portfolio/Series
- Resurrection City
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American - Latinx Solidarity
- Poor People's Campaign
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Civil Rights
- Communities
- Labor
- Local and regional
- Photography
- Resistance
- Social reform
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.116.37
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5936e7cf3-a42f-4a4a-ad8e-83a26edb4497
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