Mayor Walter Washington visits Resurrection City, May 1968.

ID: 3833 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, ©Washington Post
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Mayor Walter Washington visits Resurrection City, May 1968.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - The Lincoln Memorial

Since the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in 1922, the larger-than-life-size, seated statue of the “Great Emancipator” has witnessed many milestones in the fight for civil rights. The dedication day was, itself, a demonstration of racism in…