(CIVIL RIGHTS) Color snapshots of the Resurrection City anti

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Color snapshots of the Resurrection City anti-poverty encampment. 6 color photographs, 3½ x 5 inches, printed on period pre-1972 "A Kodak Paper," plus two slightly smaller circa 1980s copy prints of the same on "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak"; all with minimal wear. In a circa 1980s Ritz Camera folder labeled in manuscript "May 15 - June 24, 1968 Resurrection City." Washington, May-June 1968

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Resurrection City was the next project planned by Martin Luther King at the time of his assassination, a massive multiracial anti-poverty demonstration on Washington's National Mall which lasted for more than a month. After his death, it went ahead under the leadership of Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson. These six period prints by an unknown photographer show Resurrection City's most notable landscape features: tents, wooden pallets, and lots of mud. White and Black residents of the encampment can be seen. Two shots depict children playing with a tricycle; the Washington Monument looms in the background of two others.