Worth Repeating: Edith Lee-Payne at the March on Washington

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/26/13: 

On August 28, 1963, Edith Lee-Payne was celebrating her 12th birthday by attending the March on Washington with her mother. She did not notice the photographer snap her picture. It would be more than 40 years later that her sister saw the photograph in a calendar celebrating African American history.   In 2011, she shared her story of attending the march and finding her photo in the National Archives in 2008:  Prologue: Pieces of History » Finding the girl in the photograph.

 

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