Text transcribed from caption: PC-29813 LINCOLN SPIRIT PREVADES [sic] WASHINGTON MARCH WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Abraham Lincoln was present in spirit as more than 200,000 Americans gathered before the memorial to him in the nation’s capital in a moving mass effort for civil rights. Several speakers cited the 100-year lag in providing all citizens with equal rights and opportunities since Lincoln singed the Emancipation Proclamation. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-9A-63-NBM)

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. (publisher)

1963
August 28, 1963

still image

negatives

negative : black-and-white ; 10 x 8 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Statues.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Civil rights--United States.

United States.
Washington (D.C.)
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington

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Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.

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RNS RG 1, image no. PC-29813; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

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