(L: Radio personality Georgie Woods registers riders for a bus from Philadelphia to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. R: A trainbound for Washington, DCleaves 30th Street Station.)
On the eve of the 50th Anniversary ofthe 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,
now is a great chance to explore the photographs of Philadelphia photographer Jack T. Franklin!
Our online collection includes photographs not only of Philadelphians planning for and heading to the March on Washington, but also of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March, the 1968 Poor People's March and the 1965 Girard College Protests.
Born in 1922, Jack T. Franklin began taking photographs as a child in the 1930s. After serving as a photographer for the United States Army 1862nd Aviation Engineers during World War II, Franklin continued to hone his skills at the U.S. Army Signal Corps Photographic Center in New York. Soon after, Franklin returned home to Philadelphia, where his lens captured the social and political life of several generations of Black Philadelphians.
With these photos and others - particularly those taken of major moments and figures of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as of notable figures such as Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne and Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford - Franklin's work exposed readers of publications such as The Philadelphia Tribune, Jet and Ebony magazines, and The Philadelphia Inquirer to the intricacies and diversity of African American, and American, life.
In 1986, Franklin donated his collection of over 500,000 photographs and negatives to the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Of these, approximately 1,000 are now available for viewing online.
If you are interested in contributing funds to support the ongoing digitization of this collection, please email Patricia Wilson Aden.
701 Arch Street | Philadelphia, PA 19106 | www.aampmuseum.org | 215-574-0380
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