Listening in Union Square.  This bareheaded man listens intently to a speaker in Union Square, probably at a demonstration during the 1930s.

The image was featured in a 2003 exhibit at The American Labor Museum/Botto House entitled Union Square:  America's Soapbox."  The exhibt was curated by FrancineTyler, who says of the people demonstrating in the square:   "Their protests and demonstrations exercise the Constitutional rights of free speech and free assembly, and their actions remain a symbol still alive in people's minds, of how ordinary people, together, can make their own history."

Undated photograph by Clifford Sutcliffe. New York City Municipal Archives.