Resurrection City: Untitled

Object Details

Photograph by: Jill Freedman, American, born 1939
Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968; Unidentified Man or Men

Description: A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of six men standing and looking towards the camera. Several of the men to the left of frame hold a sign that reads [Bridgeton N. J. / Want more better / housing]. The man third from the right wears a striped shirt and two pinback buttons, one with the image of JFK and the other reading [POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN / PUERTORRIQUEÑOS MARCHAN and carries the Puerto Rican flag in his pocket. The print is signed on the back in graphite [Jill Freedman].

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

1968; printed September 2017

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin and photographic paper
Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 5/8 × 12 15/16 in. (21.9 × 32.9 cm); H x W (Sheet): 10 7/8 × 14 in. (27.7 × 35.5 cm)

Place captured: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted: Bridgeton, Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America; Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean, Latin America, 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: African American - Latinx Solidarity; Poor People's Campaign

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic: African American; Activism; Agriculture; Housing; Labor; Local and regional; Migrations; Politics; Poverty; U.S. History, 1961-1969

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd55ae48d39-6234-4bbb-85a3-325db737e717