Muddy Waters and his band performing at Resurrection City in May 1968

ID: 3834 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, ©Washington Post
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - The Lincoln Memorial
Muddy Waters and his band performing at Resurrection City in 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…