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Illustrated Scenes From The 'March For Our Lives'

NPR | By LA Johnson
Published March 24, 2018 at 9:31 PM EDT
The "March For Our Lives" was held near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
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Hundreds of thousands of students, teachers, parents and victims gathered in Washington, D.C., and across the country on Saturday to rally for tougher gun control measures.

I'm an illustrator at NPR and I was in our nation's capital with a sketchbook and some pens. Here's what I saw:

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Entrance to the march on 7th Street
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Kids sit atop an electrical box above the crowd.
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School-related signs
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Some of the protest signs brought to the march
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Babies and their various modes of transportation
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Small counterprotest
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One of the jumbo screens
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One man weeps at the march.
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Register to vote here
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LA Johnson
LA Johnson is an art director and illustrator at NPR. She joined in 2014 and has a BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design.