Leonard Freed

Oh, I love that photograph.

So that photograph was taken by a white photographer named Leonard Freed.

And Leonard Freed had a wide career of taking pictures of social movements, taking pictures in the US and abroad.

And I believe that Leonard Freed had a whole collection from the nineteen sixty-three March on Washington that was in the home of his widow for years and years.

And I believe Paul Farber, who is also interested in more memorials and monuments and photography, spent time with the Freed family and had an opportunity to publish his March on Washington pictures in a collection called This Is the Day.

And in twenty, I don't know, thirteen, I was part of a group that was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington with the German Historical Institute.

and then it's 11 a.m and there's like maybe a hundred thousand people there and it's like two o'clock and we're ready to get started and there's 250 000 people here and the american nazi party tried to mess it up but they weren't having it and you know they made sure that they had black and white patrol officers both there and the water trucks there's lines there and people are getting their bag lunches you know really immersing myself in that news reporting And looking at so much photography.

The cover of the book is from the photographer Leonard Freed, who had an incredible collection from the March on Washington.

But just really just visually trying to get as much footage, watching as much as possible to try to... you know, write about these moments.

People are hot.