Curbstone Service: Members of the Poor People's Campaign take time out tonight in their demonstration outside the Justice Department to eat a late meal. Numbering about 350, the demonstrators said they were prepared to conduct an all-night vigil if Attorney General Ramsey Clark did not agree to meet with 100 of them inside. They previously rejected an offer from Clark to meet with 20 of the demonstrators during the afternoon, Washington DC,

June 3, 1968

Charles "Chick" Harrity, born 1938, Reading, PA; active New York, NY and Washington, D.C.
Published by Associated Press
2022-260

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Title
Curbstone Service: Members of the Poor People's Campaign take time out tonight in their demonstration outside the Justice Department to eat a late meal. Numbering about 350, the demonstrators said they were prepared to conduct an all-night vigil if Attorney General Ramsey Clark did not agree to meet with 100 of them inside. They previously rejected an offer from Clark to meet with 20 of the demonstrators during the afternoon, Washington DC
Dates

June 3, 1968

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15 × 18.8 cm (5 7/8 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 15.6 × 22 cm (6 1/8 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of M. Robin Krasny, Class of 1973
Object Number
2022-260
Place Depicted

North America, United States, Washington, D.C.

Inscription
With typewritten title and date on recto; with date stamp on verso
Culture
Subject