Photographic transparency of the Poor People's Campaign: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

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.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: May 21, 1968 - June 23, 1968
• Photograph by: Robert Houston, American, 1935 - 2021
• Subject of: Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968
• Subject of: Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, American, 1933 - 1986
• Subject of: Unidentified Man or Men
• Subject of: Black Star, American, founded 1935
• Type: transparencies
• Type: portraits
• Medium: reversal film
• Dimensions: H x W: 1 15/16 × 1 15/16 in. (4.9 × 4.9 cm)
• Place depicted: National Mall, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Black geographies
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Housing
• Topic: Local and regional
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2015.245.277
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Robert Houston Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.