Massive 'Walk for Freedom' in downtown Detroit
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Massive 'Walk for Freedom' in downtown Detroit

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Associated Press

Maker
American

Massive 'Walk for Freedom' in downtown Detroit

June 23, 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 17.3 x 24.1 cm (6 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.) (including caption)
Paper: 20.5 x 25.4 cm (8 1/16 x 10 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0346.0021
Inscriptions recto (printed): (DF1)DETROIT, JUNE 23--MASSIVE 'WALK FOR FREEDOM' IN DOWNTOWN DETROIT--Thousands of / "Freedom Marchers" engulf Woodward Ave., in downtown Detroit today. The parade, / billed as a protest against racial discrimination, was led by Rev. Martin Luther / King, Jr., Negro civil rights leader. (AP Wirephoto) (FN11730stf) '63

(in image): STOP / Jim Crow / JOIN N.A.A.C.P. [protest sign]

[no inscription verso]
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