Old News: Resurrection City
Softcover | First edition | 96 pages
Published by Grossman Publishers, 1970.
Resurrection City documents the Poor People’s Campaign encampment set up on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in 1968. Jill Freedman lived on site and photographed daily life inside the temporary city, focusing on residents, communal spaces, protests, and the routines that developed under constant pressure and surveillance.
The book presents a direct record of a short-lived political moment, showing how protest, exhaustion, solidarity, and improvisation coexisted within the camp. It remains one of Freedman’s most politically grounded works.
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