Primary Sources and Picture Books: A Place to Land by Barry Wittenstein

The Chronicle., August 28, 1963

March on Washington Lincoln Memorial Program

Final plans for the march on Washington for jobs and freedom, August 28, 1963

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014645600/

Reference note

Contributor Names: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Created / Published: New York : March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, [1963]
Subject Headings: - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- Civil rights--United States
Genre: Leaflets--1960-1970
Notes: - Cover title.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 37470 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37470

Demonstrators sit, with their feet in the Reflecting Pool, during the March on Washington, 1963

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011648314/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1963 Aug. 28.
Subject Headings: - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
- Activists--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: - Title devised by Library staff.
- Contact sheet folder caption: "Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. WKL, 8/28/63."
- U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
- Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10358, frame no. 8.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: ds 00834 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00834

March on Washington Arms Crossed

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Signs carried by many marchers, during the March on Washington, 1963

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2013649711/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Trikosko, Marion S., photographer
Created / Published: [1963 Aug. 28]
Subject Headings: - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: - Title devised by Library staff.
- U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
- Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10347, frame 21.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 37245 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37245

Washington Afro American August 27, 1963

Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2013648833/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin Luther King, Jr.(SCLC); John Lewis (SNCC); Rabbi Joachim Prinz (American Jewish Congress); A. Philip Randolph, with Reverend Eugene Carson Blake partially visible behind him; President John F. Kennedy; Walter Reuther (labor leader), with Vice President Lyndon Johnson partially visible behind him; and Roy Wilkins (NAACP).
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: [1963 Aug. 28]
Subject Headings: - Kennedy, John F.--(John Fitzgerald),--1917-1963
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: - Title devised by Library staff.
- U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
- Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10379, frame 6.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ds 04413 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.04413

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2013648832/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows a military color guard on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with audience, speakers, and photographres on all sides.
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1963 Aug. 28.
Subject Headings: - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: - Title from contact sheet folder caption.
- U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
- Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10360, frame 23.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ds 04411 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.04411

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2003654394/

Reference note

Summary: Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans and whites on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial; two men in foreground read a newspaper with the headline: "They're Pouring In From All Over."
Contributor Names: Leffler, Warren K., photographer
Created / Published: 1963 Aug. 28.
Subject Headings: - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--(1963 :--Washington, D.C.)
- African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
- Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)--1960-1970
Notes: - Title from contact sheet folder caption.
- U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
- Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10359, frame 15.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 03129 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.03129