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Reverend Kirkpatrick - Resurrection City, Wash. D.C.. - 1968
Object Details
- Description
- This image depicts the Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick holding a guitar. Kirkpatrick led cultural programs at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign. Wearing a dark blue denim shirt with brass buttons, he is viewed from below, giving him a monumental aspect. He holds the guitar against his torso and strums with his right hand. He gazes straight ahead, over the head of the photographer.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Robert and Greta Houston
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date
- May 21, 1968- June 23, 1968
- Object number
- 2014.116.32
- Photograph by
- Robert Houston, American, 1935 - 2021
- Subject of
- Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, American, 1933 - 1986
- Signed by
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Robert Houston
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- portraits
- digital images
- digital media - born analog
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2124 pixels × 3218 pixels, 39.15 MB
- Place depicted
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
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- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American - Latinx Solidarity
- Poor People's Campaign
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Civil Rights
- Communities
- Folk (Music)
- Local and regional
- Men
- Photography
- Resistance
- Social reform
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.116.32
- Usage
- CC0
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