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Poor People's Campaign mule train
Charles Roland1968/1968
Chicago History Museum
Chicago, Illinois, United States
During the climax of the Wednesday evening violence, thousands of protesters escaped a police cordon of Grant Park and joined a mule train down Michigan Avenue toward the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Led by civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy, the Poor People's Campaign simply got caught in the rush of events.
Details
- Title: Poor People's Campaign mule train
- Creator: Charles Roland
- Date: 1968/1968
- Location: Chicago
- Medium: color slides
- Credit: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-62715; Dr. Charles Roland, photographer
- Creator role: photographer
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