The black-and-white still image shows two women in close-up, embedded in the dense crowd of the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. The woman on the left wears a hat folded from a newspaper as improvised sun protection, indicating the summer heat of the day. The woman on the right wears a button on her dress with text corresponding to the typical motto of the event – “Jobs and Freedom.” In the background, raised hands and a banner with the fragment “…TS!” are visible, pointing to one of the widespread demand signs of the march. The image documents the personal, everyday dimension of the mass demonstration, in which over one hundred thousand people around the National Mall advocated for civil rights and economic equality. It illustrates the broad civil society participation that made the March on Washington a key event in the U.S. civil rights movement.