Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied green sticker: 60; upper center stamped in purple ink: TRIBUNE PRE-STATE; upper right printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Associated Press / WASHINGTON POLICE CARRIED DEMONSTRATOR OUT OF THE WAY / Police cleared the street, making many arrests / WASHINGTON, D.C. —(AP)— Civil rights pickets / swarmed onto Pennsylvania Av. Friday and sprawled on / the pavement in front of the White House. They sang and / struggled as police carried them away. / It was the second time in two days that the Southern / civil rights tactic of civil disobedience had been aimed at / the White House by demonstrators demanding that Presi- / dent Johnson send federal forces to Selma, Ala. / Mr. Johnson was quoted as declaring he would not be / blackjacked by pickets into any hasty action in the racially / torn Southern city.; upper right stamped in purple ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: 4 MAR 13 1965 T; center left stamped in blue ink perpendicular: ENGRAVING OFFICE / 1965 MAR 12 PM 9:13; lower center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink; by unknown hand, bottom left in red ink inverted and circled: Blacks- / Negroes [crossed out] / Segregation - Demon - Wash. DC.