Dorothy P. Williams giving a folding cot to a man in Resurrection City, an encampment of tents and shacks constructed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., during the Poor People's Campaign.

She is wearing an armband that reads, "Marshal," and three pins that promote the campaign and the National Welfare Rights Organization; one of the pins (which a man behind her is also wearing) reads, "Welfare Rights Now!" Williams was an SCLC member and civil rights activist from...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peppler, Jim
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/233