Library of Congress releases new photos of the 1963 March on Washington

A priest talks to a black man. (Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
The March on Washington, Aug. 28. (Danny Lyon, courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery and Dektol.wordpress.com. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
'The emancipator and his flock.' Photograph shows an elevated view from behind the statue of Abraham Lincoln, through the columns at front of the large crowd gathered on the steps to the Lincoln Memorial and around the Reflection Pool. (Photo by James K. W. Atherton, UPI, White House News Photographers Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Aerial view of the crowd at the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. (Photo by Roosevelt Carter/United Press International, World Telegram & Sun Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Students in NAACP jackets at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Photo by Roosevelt Carter/The Estate of Roosevelt Carter. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
A young black man stands in front of the Washington Monument, holding a copy of the Washington Afro-American newspaper with the headline, 'They're pouring in from all over,' at the March on Washington. (Photo by David Johnson. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Participants hold hands in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington. (Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
March on Washington crowd at the Reflecting Pool. (Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
March leaders (left to right) A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Anna Arnold Hedgeman planning the route for the 1963 'March on Washington.' (United Press International, World Telegram & Sun Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
A mother, father, and son at the March on Washington. (Photo by David Johnson, 1963. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
Demonstrators marching in the street hold signs during the March on Washington, Aug. 28, 1963. (Photographer: Marion S. Trikosko. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
In front of 170 W. 130 St., New York City, left to right Bayard Rustin, deputy director; Cleveland Robinson, chairman of administrative committee, March on Washington. (Orlando Fernandez, World Telegram & Sun photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
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