The photograph shows a street corner at night on Lexington Avenue, with the storefront of an “Ess & Eff Food Stores” business in the background. A group of travelers, predominantly women with suitcases, bags, and provisions containers, has assembled next to a Trailways intercity bus numbered S-621 with the destination sign “LIMITED.” The scene belongs in the context of the nationwide arrival for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, for which civil rights organizations from numerous cities organized special buses. Such nighttime departures were necessary to ensure that several hundred thousand people arrived in time for the rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The image documents the logistical mobilization and the broad participation in one of the largest demonstrations of the U.S. civil rights movement.