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Western Plaza, a wide space on Pennsylvania Avenue, was renamed Freedom Plaza in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Washington, D.C.

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Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images.

Martin Luther King, Jr., who worked on his "I Have a Dream" speech in the nearby Willard Hotel. Some of his belongings were buried in a time capsule under the plaza.

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Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:124).

Forms part of the Selects Series in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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01/01/1980
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States ,  38.90719, -77.03687
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Library of Congress
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