On Toward Washington: One of 29 mule carts that pulled out of Marks, Mississippi, on a leg of the Poor People's trek to the nation's capital moves across the flatlands of Mississippi as sundown approaches Monday. The wagon train segment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's latest Civil Rights drive was to have departed last week, but was delayed because mules being used did not have proper shoes for walking on concrete
On Toward Washington: One of 29 mule carts that pulled out of Marks, Mississippi, on a leg of the Poor People's trek to the nation's capital moves across the flatlands of Mississippi as sundown approaches Monday. The wagon train segment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's latest Civil Rights drive was to have departed last week, but was delayed because mules being used did not have proper shoes for walking on concrete
On Toward Washington: One of 29 mule carts that pulled out of Marks, Mississippi, on a leg of the Poor People's trek to the nation's capital moves across the flatlands of Mississippi as sundown approaches Monday. The wagon train segment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's latest Civil Rights drive was to have departed last week, but was delayed because mules being used did not have proper shoes for walking on concrete
On Toward Washington: One of 29 mule carts that pulled out of Marks, Mississippi, on a leg of the Poor People's trek to the nation's capital moves across the flatlands of Mississippi as sundown approaches Monday. The wagon train segment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's latest Civil Rights drive was to have departed last week, but was delayed because mules being used did not have proper shoes for walking on concrete

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On Toward Washington: One of 29 mule carts that pulled out of Marks, Mississippi, on a leg of the Poor People's trek to the nation's capital moves across the flatlands of Mississippi as sundown approaches Monday. The wagon train segment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's latest Civil Rights drive was to have departed last week, but was delayed because mules being used did not have proper shoes for walking on concrete,

May 13, 1968

Photographer unidentified
Published by Associated Press
2022-261

Information

Title
On Toward Washington: One of 29 mule carts that pulled out of Marks, Mississippi, on a leg of the Poor People's trek to the nation's capital moves across the flatlands of Mississippi as sundown approaches Monday. The wagon train segment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's latest Civil Rights drive was to have departed last week, but was delayed because mules being used did not have proper shoes for walking on concrete
Dates

May 13, 1968

Maker
Photographer unidentified
Published by Associated Press
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 15.1 × 24.5 cm (5 15/16 × 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 20.2 × 25.8 cm (7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of M. Robin Krasny, Class of 1973
Object Number
2022-261
Place Depicted

North America, United States, Mississippi, Marks

Inscription
With typewritten title and date on recto; with date stamp on verso
Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, photographs
Subject
photojournalism

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