Leah Barker
Leonard Freed,"March on Washington"
1963
This photo was captured in the early 1960's during a time where African Americans were mistreated and not always treated with equity. The great Martin Luther King Jr. was known for his determination to create equality for all people. The image is shot so King is larger than life in the foreground, illiciting a feeling of his power and agency to bring all people together. He said, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
