Text transcribed from caption: C-37161 ‘RESURRECTION CITY’ WASHINGTON, D.C. -- “Resurrection City” begins to take shape in Washington, D.C. It will be “home” for some 3,000 participants in the Poor People’s Campaign during their stay in the national capital. The site for the camp being set up by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is situated alongside the Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (2-NY-5C-68-W)

United Press International. (publisher)

1968
May 1968

still image

photographs

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

Religious News Service--Archives.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Poor People's Campaign.
Tents--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--United States.
Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)

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

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RNS RG 1, image no. C-37161; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_C-37161

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