Who was this unidentified pair wading in the Reflecting Pool on the Mall during the weeks-long Poor People's Campaign in 1968? Longtime labor organizer Richard Bensinger -- just 17 at the time -- took this photo during the 1968 Poor People's Campaign and he and his wife, Virginia Diamond, were newly energized to unravel the mystery after ceremonies commemorating the 50th anniversary earlier this year. “These are people who have lived a righteous, just life,” Bensinger (right) speculates. Click here to read the whole story in The Washington Post.
photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post
photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post