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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, also known as simply the March on Washington or the Great March on Washington, [1] [2] was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. [3] The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
An archive of photos from the 1963 March on Washington, which took place on the National Mall on August 28, 1963. A look back at the March on Washington nearly 60 years later: in photos Skip to ...
Human Shadow Etched in Stone (人影の石, hitokage no ishi) [2] is an exhibition at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. It is thought to be the shadow of a person who was sitting at the entrance of Hiroshima Branch of Sumitomo Bank when the atomic bomb was dropped over Hiroshima. It is also known as Human Shadow of Death [1] or simply the ...
An estimated 90,000 to 166,000 people in Hiroshima (between 26 and 49 percent of its population) and 60,000 to 80,000 people in Nagasaki (between 22 and 32 percent of its population) died in 1945, of which a majority in each case were killed on the days of the bombings, due to the force and heat of the blasts themselves.
EDITOR’S NOTE — On Aug. 28, 1963, AP reporter Raymond J. Crowley went to the National Mall and chronicled the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which went on to become one of the most ...
Tōmatsu's images of Nagasaki and its hibakusha were joined with Ken Domon's photographs of Hiroshima to create Tōmatsu's first critically acclaimed book Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Document, 1961. In the same year, Tōmatsu was named Photographer of the Year by the Japan Photo Critics Association.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 21:53, 25 October 2013: 780 × 546 (209 KB): Jaybear: Original photo taken with handwriting text in upper left corner; little retouching: rotating by 0.4 deg clockwise; cropped to mod-8 sizes; upper 3px border lines adjusted with nearby content; lower right white corner (of about 1/2 of 16x16px) retouched...
On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima -- and newly revealed photos shed light on the preparations for the attack. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on ...