Text transcribed from caption: PC-37336 POOR PEOPLE’S LEADER JAILED WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Rev. Ralph Abernathy peers through the barred window of a bus taking him to jail in Washington, D.C. The head of the Southern Leadership Conference, with some 300 others, was arrested for attempting to demonstrate on the Capitol grounds. His arrest followed ouster of residents from Resurrection City by police. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (1-NY-6E-68-W)

Wide World Photos, Inc. (publisher)

1968
June 24, 1968

still image

photographs

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

Religious News Service--Archives.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990.

Civil rights movements--United States.
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
Poor People's Campaign.
Civil rights leaders--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--United States.
Clergy--Washington (D.C.)
African American clergy--Washington (D.C.)
Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

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

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RNS-RG1_PC-37336

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