UAW supports jobs

Object Details

Photograph by: Laura Jones, Canadian American, born 1948
Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968; The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), American, ca. 1955

Description: A black and white image of people in water.; On Solidarity Day at Resurrection City, a crowd is in the Reflecting Pool with their clothes on. In the foreground on the proper left side there is a woman in a black and white pinstripe collared tank top with matching pants. She is holding sunglasses in her right hand. There is a little boy standing next to her. He is turned to the proper left side and he is wearing a dark shirt with a white sleeve stripe and plaid pants. He is holding a sign with a wooden handle in his right hand. The sign is white with black text in different fonts. It reads [UAW SUPPORTS / JOBS / EDUCATION / HOUSING / MEDICAL CARE / GUARANTEED INCOME / FOR EVERY AMERICAN].; There are more people in the water in the background. There is also a crowd of people on the sidewalks in front of some trees.

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Laura Jones

June 19, 1968

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
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; Civil Rights; Education; Health; Housing; Justice; Labor; Local and regional; Medicine; Politics; Poverty; U.S. History, 1961-1969

GUID (Link to Original Record): http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5091aa25a-92a4-4dfb-bbbe-7e3cc4830dc5