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CORE members swing down Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, toward 69th St. ferry on trek to Washington / World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez.

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CORE members swing down Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, toward 69th St. ferry on trek to Washington / World Telegram & Sun photo by O. Fernandez.

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Photo shows the group of women and men who walked from New York City to Washington, D.C., to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963. Lawrence Cumberbatch is five people back wearing a red-and-white hat. (Source: Nephew of Cumberbatch, interviewed at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/27/)
NYWT&S staff photographer.

Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington" at the Graphic Arts Galleries, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2013-2014.

The New York World-Telegram, later known as the New York World-Telegram and The Sun, was a New York City newspaper from 1931 to 1967. The Library of Congress collection includes about 1 million photographs that the New York World-Telegram & Sun Newspaper assembled mostly 1890 and 1967, the year in which the newspaper closed. This newspaper photo morgue is typical of the files that newspapers maintain of images that either were published or were believed to have some future publication potential. Such files were periodically "weeded" by newspaper staff members. Much of the photography used by newspapers is "quick copy," and many images have been cropped, retouched, or highlighted for publication. Some images were taken by the newspaper's staff photographers while others came from wire press services, studios, or amateur photographers.

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01/01/1963
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Fernandez, Orlando, photographer
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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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No known copyright restriction. For information see "New York World-Telegram & ...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/076_nyw.html

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