The photograph shows a group of demonstrators in close proximity to one another, captured in a dense crowd during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. In the foreground are two young women: one holding a U.S. flag, the other—wearing light-colored sunglasses—calling out with her mouth wide open, visibly engaged emotionally. The U.S. flag in the image points to the civil rights movement’s assertion of constitutionally guaranteed rights for all American citizens. The close-up makes the personal participation of the attendees tangible and stands exemplarily for the broad civil society mobilization that brought several hundred thousand people to Washington on that day. The March on Washington was directed against racial segregation and discrimination and demanded equal civil rights and employment for the Black population of the United States.