Facial Hair Friday: In honor of MLK
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at center. (542015 / 306-SSM-4C(51)15)
This Saturday marks the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech.
I was looking through ARC at the pictures of how many people participated, when I noticed something that had never registered before: Martin Luther King Jr. has a mustache.
But when you look at the picture above, you realize why I didn’t notice earlier. He is completely calm and collected, even as he is about to speak to thousands and thousands of people (see image below). He is focused, in the moment, intense. He is making history. How could anyone watching in person or on film notice minor details then?
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. A wide-angle view of marchers along the mall, showing the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument, 08/28/1963. (ARC 542045; 306-SSM-4D(80)10)
Posted by Hilary on August 27, 2010, under - Civil Rights, - The 1960s, Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: civil rights, Facial Hair Fridays, Jr., March on Washington, Martin Luther Kingamerican history, NARA, national archives, National archives and records administration, odd history, Pieces of History, prologue blog, Prologue magazine, random history, weird US history
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Comment from SuperSonic
Time October 25, 2010 at 12:00 am
ЎHola!
Interesante, yo cotizaciуn en mi sitio mбs tarde.
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Comment from Rena
Time August 27, 2010 at 4:54 pm
I love Facial Hair Fridays! What a creative way to incorporate the human experience with history! I must concur that his mustache never registered with me before either, and I am no stranger to civil rights history in the U.S. His ‘stache is as poised as he is, but that intensity in his eyes make you unable to look at anything else.
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