Bench Thanksgiving Dinner

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Title: Bench Thanksgiving Dinner
Creator(s): St. Louis Globe-Democrat
AP LaserPhoto
Date: 1981-11-26
Content Type: picture
Subject(s): Thanksgiving Day
Geographic Area: District of Columbia
Washington (D.C.)
Time Period: 1980-1989
Description: "A bench in Lafayette Park opposite the White House is the setting for a unique Thanksgiving Dinner Thursday. Washington's Community for Creative Non-Violence sponsored the dinner for homeless men, women and children from the community. After the dinner, the sponsoring organization intended to erect tents to shelter the homeless and to be a visible reminder of their protest of Reagan administration cutbacks in social programs."
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Classification: Thanksgiving Day 1981077
Owner: St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis