John Olsen's "Women's March" Photo Featured In NY Times Magazine Essay

November 2, 2024 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography

 Via The New York Times

November 2, 2024

black and white photograph of women of diverse ethnicities form a line in a march on New York's Fifth Avenue in 1970 on the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment
 John Olson/The LIFE Picture Collection: A 1970 march in New York City on the 50th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, August 26, 1970

How Will White Women Vote? It’s a Question With a Fraught History.

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance. --Click for full article


This photograph is featured in the current Monroe Gallery exhibition "The Best of Us".

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