The photograph shows a group of participants at the edge of the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Young women and men sit on the pool’s edge, some with their feet dipped in the water; further demonstrators crowd together in the background, and a press photographer documents the scene on the right. A clearly legible sign identifies the group as a delegation from Iowa, carried by the civil rights organizations AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), and NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). The photograph was taken on August 28, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which approximately 250,000 people from across the country participated. It illustrates the nationwide mobilization and organizational cooperation of various civil rights associations that stood behind demands for civil rights legislation and employment. At the same time, the image documents the quiet, everyday side of this major event between the speeches at the Lincoln Memorial.