This slide is part of a collection of 35mm slides encapsulating Robert Houston's full portfolio of images related to the Poor People's Campaign and the antipoverty protest camp on the National Mall. Known as "Resurrection City," the camp lasted for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
This photographic slide depicts Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick strumming a guitar and singing with a group. Kirkpatrick led cultural programs at Resurrection City during the Poor People's Campaign.
Photographic transparency of the Poor People's Campaign
- Caption
- This slide is part of a collection of 35mm slides encapsulating Robert Houston's full portfolio of images related to the Poor People's Campaign and the antipoverty protest camp on the National Mall. Known as "Resurrection City," the camp lasted for six weeks in the spring of 1968.
- Description
- This photographic slide depicts Reverend Kirkpatrick strumming a guitar. Wearing a dark blue button down shirt over a tan shirt, he carries the guitar on a strap over his left shoulder. He is surrounded by a group of men who all gaze at sheets of paper held in their hands. These sheets of paper have text and images on them. There are trees in the background. With the transparency was a protective plastic sleeve with a sticker on the lower left corner with both handwrittten and stamped text.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Photograph by
- Robert Houston, American, 1935 - 2021
- Subject of
- Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
- Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, American, 1933 - 1986
- Unidentified Man or Men
- Black Star, American, founded 1935
- Date
- May 21, 1968 - June 23, 1968
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- reversal film
- Dimensions
- H x W: 1 15/16 × 1 15/16 in. (4.9 × 4.9 cm)
- Type
- transparencies
- portraits
