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; Southern Christian Leadership Conference, American, founded 1957

Description: A silver gelatin print depicting a black-and-white image of man wearing an SCLC marshall badge and an Omega button. The man sits looking towards the camera, with his head tilted slightly down. He has wavy hair and a goatee with mustache. He wears a light button-down shirt with a darker color jacket. On the jacket is a SCLC Marshall badge that reads [POOR PEOPLES CAMPAIGN / NAME (RAYMOND M-[illegible] / ADDRESS (CHICAGO ILLINOIS / BLOOD TYPE (IF KNOWN) [illegible] / SIGNATURE [illegible] / SCLC / 1401 U. STREET, NW / WASHINGTON, D.C. / [illegible] / MARSHAL]. Beneath the badge is an anti-Vietnam War draft pinback button with the Greek letter Omega on it. 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): 12 15/16 × 8 11/16 in. (32.9 × 22 cm); H x W (Sheet): 13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (35 × 27.7 cm)

Place depicted: 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: African American - Latinx Solidarity; Poor People's Campaign

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Topic: African American; Activism; Local and regional; Politics; Poverty; Race relations; U.S. History, 1961-1969; Vietnam War, 1961-1975

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd56b03818b-4081-4d19-bf2a-86a1e21ac99f